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The Fool hath said In his heart, there is no God. Pf. xiv. I. 

AN 

ANSWER TO THE WORLD, 2 

FOR PUTTING IN PRINT A BOOK IN 1804, CALLED 

Copes and Paris of Copies of Letters and Communica- 
tions, Written from Joanna Southcoti, 

AND 

TRANSMITTED BY MISS TOWNLEY TO MR. W. SHARP IN LONDON. 
BEGINNING WITH THE 

PARABLE OF THE LITTLE FLOCK OF SHEEP: 

Iti which Reasons are given, in Answer to the Mockery and 
Ridicule of Men, for printing the Parables and Fable?,, 
which were Published from DIVINE COMMAND in 
that Book. 



BY WILLIAM SHARP. 



For evil shall be put out, and deceit shall be quenched. As for 
FAITH it shall flourish, Corruption shall be overcome, and the 
Truth, which hath fcJeeirso long without fruit, shall be declared. 

2 Esdras vi. 2?, 28, 



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ii A S the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is 
-OL the laughter of the Fool." (Ecchfiajles viu 6.) 
may be applied to many — and to them might be a suf- 
ficient answer ; but for a man innocently to become the 
sport of fools, in these days, cannot be any matter of sur- 
prise, when the existence of a God is denied by some; 
and the existence of a Devil is treated by numbers as a 
phantom produced by a wild imagination, or a scare- 
crow to frighten silly people. Nevertheless, for the 
sake of truth, which hath been so long without fruit, it 
is necessary it should be declared; and for me to give a 
short account to the world, from my first reading the 
publications signed Joanna Southcott, published 
in the year 1801. *By reading only her three first Books, 
called Strange Etfects of Faith, and two 
others, called Strange Effects of Faith, with 

REMARKABLE PROPHECIES MADE IN THE YEAR, 

1792, &c. of Things which are to come, I was 
convinced, from the events that had happened, and com- 
paring them with what I read in these books, that the 
visitation to her must be out of the course of nature, and 
not *f human wisdom. It then became my duty to 
search further into the truth, which occasioned my 
journey to Exeter, at the end of that year, with several 
friends, and who went with the like innocent motives. 
I had the same right to go to Exeter, to enquire after 
the truth, if it had been only for my individual amuse- 
ment, as others have to go to Bath, to entertain them- 
pelves with its dissipations. I was then happy to find 

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Joanna South cott, with whom I became personally ac- 
quainted, had put it out of the power of evil-disposed 
people ever to prove her an impostor, as she had, before 
her publications appeared to the world, made her 
appeal to the clergy in her neighbourhood, who were of 
the established church, stating to them the purport of 
her writings, which were dictated to her from a Spirit 
invisible, that she might have the benefit of their 
advice and assistance. It was the duty of the clergy, 
according to the laws of the church of England, to give 
those who applied to them, such ghostly council and 
advice, to the quieting his or her conscience, and avoid- 
ing of all scruple and doubtfulness. Here is the duty of 
every clergyman, which is to be seen in the exhortation 
in the Communion Service, and which every person may 
read in the Prayer Book. But her sincere application 
was not successful, according to the desire of her heart; 
this appeal to the church, however, proved Joanna 
Southcott could be no impostor ; for it is the maxim of 
every impostor to shun the truth, and avoid investiga- 
tion. I have further to observe, that from the year 1792 
to the end of the year 17JH, her writings were sealed 
up, and after being witnessed* were put out of her pos- 
session; and the same caution was observed at the end 
or each succeeding year, and were at each time placed 
in the hands of persons of credit, until the arrival of my- 
self and friends at Exeter, when at our departure, which 
was at the beginning of January, 1 802, the whole of her 
sealed writings were put in our possession, properly 
scaled and witnessed. The box, containing the greater 
part, was given to my care, and a parcel, also sealed and 
witnessed, was given to the Rev. Stanhope Bruce; and 
and one to each of the other friends. And I think it 
Wiry to add, that whilst I was at Bath, on my return 
firOfn gxeter to London, I had a large case made, which 



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enclosed the whole box, for the cords round the box 
were sealed with seven seals, and I had a quantity of 
tow put between the box and the case, to preserve the 
seals from being broken. Here again, I must observe, 
that all these cautions of Joanna, about her writings, 
in sealing, &c. could not prove her an impostor; neither, 
from these circumstances, could the- Spirit that so di- 
rected her, be a false Soirit ; neither was it possible for 
us to be deceived resneeMng the identity of the writings 
delivered -to us : and which remained secure with us un- 
til they were conveyed by me to High-house, Padding- 
ton, where the box and parceU were opened, and the seals 
broken, in the presence of above forty person, who were 
assembled together by public notice, and which was at 
the beginning of January 1303. And after the writings 
were taken out, each paper was signed by three persons,, 
before they were delivered to Joanna, for them after- 
wards to be copied off. The reader will now take notice 
from these particulars, that there can be no cunningly 
contrived plan to deceive; and from the whole of Joanna's 
conduct, up to this day, together with what we dis- 
covered, when at Exeter, from the evidence of those 
who knew her many years before, and from constant 
observation since, of those who have li ed with her, and 
do now live with her, there is every confirmation of her 
sincerity, and of the divine truth of her writings. She 
could not adopt a more prudejit, or more respectful 
mode of conduct, than in her application to the clergy, 
who might be supposed to be the best informed in spiri- 
tual knowledge ; and whose duty it is to give every ghost- 
ly council and advice, according to what is required of 
them, as may be seen before, quoted from the Prayer 
Book. 

Since Joanna's firft application, every means have been 
used to invite the clergy at large, by letters sent to many 
of them at their places of residence, and by public adver- 



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tisement, and also to religious people of every sect. 
There are many other particulars, which it is not neces- 
sary for me to repeat, they being already laid before the 
public ; and Mr. Foley has related in his book what may 
be necessary to add further, to which I must request of 
the readers to refer, for their greater satisfaction. 

The clergy of the church derive their incomes from tha 
establishment, that their attention and time may not be 
diverted from those sacred duties, by any trade or calling, 
like other men, that they may be the better enabled to 
instruct their flock in the true knowledge of the word of 
God, to guard them against all false doctrines, and that 
impostors and hypocrites njay 'not come among them to 
deceive, and after to ruin them in their religious princi- 
ples. Of the ministers of the church, who are more 
than twenty thousand in number, only FOUR have yet 
been found to sit in judgment, and vindicate the ways of 
God to man. Three of these formed part of the seven, 
who, with myself, came from distant parts, and visited 
Joanna, at the end of the year 1801. 

The present awful state of the world has been increas- 
ing in calamities, ever since the year 1792, the very year 
when the Spirit of Prophecy was given to Joanna. 
Let any person only compare the state of this nation, be- 
ginning at that year 1 79-, with what it is at present ; let 
them well consider the burdens that have increased up- 
on the people ; the sufferings many must have gone 
through, by dearth and scarcity, and an uncommon in- 
crease of national taxes and other heavy expences ! Let 
every person, whether they believe in Prophecies or not, 
only place the two dates together — that is, 1799 and 
this year 1800; then let them view the events that have 
happened on the CONTINENT or EUROPE, between those 
two periods of time. In the year 179?, there was no 
war in which this eount.ry was engaged ; the means of 
subsistence could be had at an easy rate. She wrote at 



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that time of what would happen; and which has since 
come to pass. When the mind of man reflects upon 
what has happened within the period of the last thir- 
teen years, they must conclude, that some great and 
mighty change is about to take place. 

After my belief was fixed, that her visitation was from 
the God of heaven and earth, it was my duty to believe 
he would be faithful to his Word and his Promises: 
and there can be no faith but what has its root in cha- 
rity : every one must know, when one person has re- 
ceived any act of real friendship from another, without 
a possibility of any return, the person receiving a favour 
ought to place confidence in his friend's future inten- 
tions; if otherwise, he must be void of all charity and 
faith in the good intentions of his friend, and prove 
himself unworthy of any future friendship. Now this 
must be my case, if I doubt the Love and Wisdom of 
the Almighty God, by rejecting his Commands, when I 
know what his Commands are ; and as I believe his 
Spirit has dictated the Writings of Joanna Southcott, 
which declare he is now coming to redeem the world 
from the bondage of evil, and establish his universal 
Kingdom of Peace. Therefore, if it be required of man 
to have charity for his friend, and who is liable to errors, 
what excuse can be made for a man who shall have any 
doubt that the Almighty is both t( faithful and true,*' 
and that in righteousness HE doth judge and make war 
to destroy all the evil that is on earth, -when his will 
may be done on earth as it is done in Heaven. Here 
are my reasons for my belief. If any person chooses to 
find fault with me, I expect their answer founded on the 
loye of truth. 

The first and greatest promise, made by the 
Almighty, was before man was created, or had 
^ny existence, that he was to be created in the Image, 
after the likeness of hp Creator. It must be t>ie 



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inmost principle of Divine Love, to act out of and from 
itself; for love is net confined, and can have no bounds . 
and it is truly written, God is Love. Now with this free- 
dom of Spirit man was created, to act in obedience or 
not; but who after, was tempted to become a prodigal 
child. The wisdom of the Most High had provided a 
remedy, that his image might not be lost in Man ; 
therefore, after the command was given to Man, not to 
eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, in the 
very next verse there is the remedy provided for Man's 
redemption, that he may be again restored by the Pro- 
mise first made after his creation, to make him an help- 
mate in the Woman, who was taken from the Man. 
And it was to her, and not to the Man, that the promise 
was made after the fall — that her Seed should bruise the 
Serpent's Head. As Christ certainly was born of the 
woman, to have his heel bruised, so by his Spirit's vi- 
siting the woman, she becomes at last the Helpmate. 
And it is said the Woman is to be prepared, as a bride 
is adorned for her husband; therefore, whatever Woman 
is to receive Christ in the Spirit, must be prepared for 
that purpose, in such a manner that her desires must be 
to him, and to him alone, to know his Will ; and 
when convinced it is his Will, that she may obey, as it 
its written, " Let us be glad and rejoice, and give ho- 
nour to him, (that is Christ) for the Mairiage of t^e 
I mibis come, and his Wife hath made herself ready." 
AY;-, xix. 7. The reader must keep his attention fixed 
to the Fall, which carne through the Woman— the tro- 
MISB was made to the Woman — Christ was born of the 
Woman— and the Redemption from the Fall must come 
through the Woman at last, as the Fall came through 
her at first*. I am convinced that Joanna has for 
above twenty years, in various ways, been in preparation 

m explanation of this given by the Si'inir, in Mr. Foley* 
from page 26 to the end pf5l« 



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from a Spirit invisible, before the year 179?, when the 
Spirit of Prophecy was first given to her. Had she not 
been thus gradually prepared, before this period, 
the suddenness of the extraordinary visitation would 
have been too powerful for nature to bear; neither could 
she have had that confidence in the truth of the Spi- 
rit, if she had not had proofs before, respecting herself, in 
her own private life, in many instances. Her Life has been 
before printed, with the reasons; and Mr. Foley has 
of course done her character every justice, in his Book. 
Here are the means of human redemption, having the 
foundation on the first promise made to man for his 
good, on which all the promises of the Scripture rest. 
From the beginning of Genesis to the last of Revelation, 
not a single failure of any one promise can be proved by 
man ; for all is made on conditions, provided man per-« 
forms his part in faith and obedience ; and, like every 
human contract, any failure on man's part, compels his 
Creator to act according to the justice of his will : and 
Man by his disobedience forfeited the best promise of 
his creation. I most particularly request of the reader, 
that he will examine with attention, I mean the most 
scrupulous attention, the Six Books of the Explanations 
of the Scriptures, dictated through Joanna by an invi- 
sible Spirit ; he may then judge of the Spirit and the 
Bible together ; and he may judge of me for my belief 
and faith. I knew that at the time I was printing the 
Book, containing the Parables that are so much despised, 
I must become an object of ridicule, and with many of 
contempt. My faith being decided that Joanna's visita- 
tion was from Divine Authority, it is .not for me to 
oppose the wisdom of the Almighty God, by my own 
natural understanding, whether I understood the Parables 
or not ; whatever his Commands are to put. in print, I 
am to obey; because I know God is faithful and true ; 
and who is now daily proving the truth of his divine 

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Word, by bis Spirit's visiting Joanna, for her to claim 
the Promise made at the Fall, which is to bruise 
the Serpent's head, by her being the helpmate; and 
which never entered her natural mind, any more than it 
did the mind of any woman that ever existed. It is 
therefore not the length of time that is at all to be con- 
sidered. It is sufficient to know that near 6000 years 
have passed away with the world under the dominion of 
evil; and through all the different ages, no person 
whatever has come forth to claim the fulfilment of 
that Promise, which was wisely concealed in the bosom 
of the Father, until his appointed time. 

The Parables, which I put in print last year, in my 
book, beginning with the Parable of the Flock of Sheep, 
are explained by the Spirit, and given to the public in 
this book ; and the Parables in Mr. Foley's book, en- 
titled, What manner of Communications are these, are 
explained from the same Divine Source, in his book just 
published. The reader will now be in possession of the 
whole; and he will see the reasons, why such Parables 
were given. What other way can be pointed out to ex- 
plain to the world the various evils that the human race 
hath been tainted and tormented with I know not; but 
this I know, every art has been vised to adulterate Di- 
\ine Truth, in every period of the world; and the in- 
nocent have always been the victims for the murderer. 
The crimes have been so numerous from the fall up to 
this day, that the whole earth might be covered, were 
all to be put on record *. It is by parables that these 

' Let every individual publish the history of his own errors, or 
crimes, thai li:r e not reached the eve of the work), or have been ex- 
posed by the laws of his country ; let families do the same ; also ci- 
ties, and nations, with all the millions of inhabitants in our own days, 
tbei with what passes daily ami hourly in the heart and mind to 
. if men were not restrained by law, or the fear of being ex- 
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Bumerous evils can be brought within the compass of 
every understanding : and as we read that the Kingdom 
of Heaven is likened to every likeness of things on 
earth; also, at our Lord's first coming, we read, that 
Jesus spake in parables, and without a parable spake he 
not unto them." Matt. xiii. 

The reader may now proceed to read the explanations, 
from the Spirit to Joanna, beginning in page 56, on 
Parables ; and which are further continued in Mr. Foley's 
book *. 

TYPES AND SHADOWS. 

Every man must know, by common observation, 
that before the sun shoots forth its first rays of light, 
which we call the dawn of the day, the earth is in dark- 
age to age, what murderous and adulterated hearts have existed since 
the fall of man, under the Devil ! — Can the numerous sands on the 
sea shore be enough to equal the crimes of men, what they have 
committed, and particularly what they would have committed, if ex- 
ternal restraints, and their dear characters, had not stood in the way ? 
Ten thousand years of life would be but a short allowance, to write 
out the crimes and arts of hell, that have taken place on this earth. 
When the leader has reflected deeply, he will better know how to 
estimate the truth of every historian ; he will behold the rubbish, the 
lies, murders, and concealments too, of great men, as well as small 
men, in all ages and in all countries. Then let men survey the con- 
duct of animals, the beasts and birds of prey, they may see, by com- 
parison with man y innocence even in their ferocity; for when 
their hunger is satisfied, they generally become tame and harm- 
less; but man, under tf\e dominion of the devil, is a bottomless pit 
that is never full. 

* As I have made observations different from what I had at first ex- 
pected, and which may be of some length, I have made a distinction 
by printing the words of the Spirit to Joanna in a larger type. These 
observations, which I have made, on a smaller type, are only to be 
considered as my sincere and humble efforts to assist the minds of 
others ; as by their various occupations with the world, in the pursuit 
of business, many valuable truths might have escaped their notice. 



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ness, that nothing can be discovered, unless by the 
light of the moon, which is only a reflected or borrowed 
light: all objects are but imperfectly seen, and the real 
truth cannot be discovered. In Revelation xii, we read v 
of the Woman clothed with the Sun, and the Moon un- 
der her feet. In the Writings of Joanna, the Moon is re- 
presented as a type of Satan, while the World is un- 
der his power, and in the darkness of night : It is by his 
wisdom that many of the learned are instructed ; and to 
many others this kind of wisdom appears to shine bright- 
ly, and the understanding of men is much dazzled and 
puzzled with difficulties, that a ray of pure truth is not to 
be found. These men constantly boast of the improved 
state of civilization, when compared with the Indians, 
Savages, Hottentots, &c. who, they say, are not en- 
lightened, like civilized society, with the aid of learn- 
in o-. That the savages and others are in a dark state is 
certainly true ; and it is a truth that cannot be denied, 
that the devil is to be found as well among savages, as 
he is in civilized Europe. All are alike the descendants 
of Adam, and of course under the Fall : — and that the 
sav?ges murder each other is also true ; for they have 
thkir wars ; yet then it is seldom but with their next 
neighbours, and soon at an end, when the enlightened 
world, with the advantage of learning, always have, and 
do still continue to extend, their wars, their mischief, and 
their crimes, to every part of the globe. Although the 
ty of their persons and property is owing to those 
laws which have originated from the Bible, they 
in general deny all revelation ; therefore, if learn- 
ing and civilization claim the preeminence, why have 
they not produced PEACE on karth and good will 
AMONGST mem ? We have had, and we continue to 
base, plenty of authors, and plenty of divines too — 

" Ye.t <>Yr the earth (he darkness it is gone \ 
iiin^ l»ut darkness in the Sons of Men." 



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I hope I shall be excused for having wandered from the 
subject ; but while mankind are under the government 
of the Moon, these melancholy facts suddenly appear 
to my view : therefore I shall again proceed with the 
rising sun, which is described as a type or emblem of 
Christ, who is the true light and life of Man ; and it is 
by his wisdom alone that the darkness proceeding from 
the Moon, which is a type of Satan, can be dispersed. 
We all know, that, at the first appearance of the rays of 
the sun above the horizon, the shadows first appear, pro- 
duced from substances, or objects that are behind. Let 
the reader here reflect on the simplicity of this language 
drawn from nature ; and how easy this may be under- 
stood by every capacity, whether learned or not ; for 
these effects in nature do not require the aid of what is 
called learning, but may be understood by illiterate men 
pf every nation and language, however ignorant they may 
be of the different modes of speech, with all their endless 
variations ; and which scholars are so proud of displaying 
and who waste so much of a short life in their pursuit, 
only that their own dear selves may be admired. This 
may appear to some like honey covering over a dish full 
of dirt (as mentioned in page 31 of Joanna's Prophecies.) 
These characters treat with contempt the parables used 
by Christ, for human instruction ; and they reject also 
every knowledge produced by types and shadows. 
Therefore as man cannot be brought to the knowledge 
of wisdom at once, he can only be gradually instruct- 
ed, like the introduction of the light of the morning;. 
For any man to be brought suddenly out of darkness to 
behold the sun in its meridian splendor is impossible • 
even the light of candles, when introduced into a room 
has been too strong for the eye, after the company has 
been sitting together at the close of the day ; therefore 
the splendid sun must produce the wonderful effect like 
the deprivation of sight. These common observations I 



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trust are sufficient to convince the reader, that the true 
and easy way that man can be instructed by, is first by the 
shadows, which the light makes us discern, that when 
they appear the substance must be behind, which will 
gently lead him to the truth. In Joanna's Book of Let- 
ters, page 32, she says, when the hand of God is in any 
thing, he always brings the shadows before the sub- 
stance ; and in the same page, when the sun is behind 
a, tree, the shadow comes before the substance ; in the 
preface to Joanna's first Book of Prophecies, which it is 
every ones duty to attend to, she says, I shall go on till 
I have made public all the mysteries of the Bible — the 
times which are to come — and what shall happen till 
Christ's Kingdom is established : sometimes from types 
and shadows ; sometimes from dreams and visions ; and 
also from the Bible. Here I beg of the reader to go to 
Mr. Foley's book, lately published, page 17, upon the 
lessons of the day appointed by the church, and read 
with attention. It is also a truth in nature, which can- 
not be denied, that there are shadows produced from the 
light of the moon, and which frequently produce terror 
and dismay, particularly to a timid mind. When man be- 
came dead to the light and wisdom of the Sun, or the Lord 
of Life, by the Fall, it was then that the knowledges of 
Satan, like the light of the moon, introduced the reign of 
terror and darkness in the world; and which cannot be 
better displayed than it is in a .part of the history of Jo- 
anna's life, of her being frightened by the false appear- 
ances that were presented to her imagination by the light 
of the moon, with the fright of the owls, who at the 
same time were as much disturbed by her, when they 
were stealing apples *.— -The owls at this present day are 
in the same state of alarm, faring the fulfilment of the 
Bible, that darkness may no longer prevail. — It is not sur- 
prising that mockery and ridicule are gone forth against me 
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and my friend, for publishing of the parables contained in 
our two booKS,and which give soexact adescription of the 
murderous and adulterated state of the world, that many 
cannot bear that the whole should be exposed. Men will 
there find that the true knowledge of the Bible cannot 
be known, without a right understanding of types and 
shadows ; they were placed in the prophets, the same as 
they have been placed to Joanna ; and were pointed out 
as signs to the people, of what should take place, and of 
what the end would be. But as I shall introduce a com- 
munication from the Spirit, in page 89 of this book, ex- 
plaining the use of the visitation at Bristol, in the sum- 
mer of 1804, to Joanna, a true account of which is be- 
fore the public, in the two books published by Mr. Fo- 
ley and myself, at the end of that year ; it is needless for 
me to observe, that the types were set as strongly in Jo- 
anna as they were in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, of 
what is now coming upon all nations ; and by referring 
to that communication, the reader will be instructed by 
the Spirit of Wisdom, why those types were set in the 
prophets of those days, as well as in Joanna, in the year 
1804 ; therefore I shall not presume to give any further 
observations. All created Nature is as a Book of Wis- 
dom, and an Uncreated Being must be the Author ; and 
what God writes must be in a legible hand. From 
the appearances that are in nature, and the most 
trifling ways of men, are brought forth types to 
inform the most simple mind, what is the divine will to 
man, in both the old and new Testaments. 

In Jeremiah xviii. 2. the prophet is thus ordered — 
"Arise and go down to the potter's house, and there I will 
cause thee to hear my words. — If any person should be de- 
sirous to know the reason why Jeremiah should be com- 
manded to go to a potter's house in particular, and there 
see formed those earthen utensils called pots, the answer to 
this enquiry is in verse 6, as follows — " O house of Israel, 



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cannot I do with you as this potter ? saith the Lord t 
behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in 
my hand, O house of Israel. 

I shall next require the reader's attention to Acts ii.— • 
After they were filled with the Holy Ghost, and began 
to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them ut- 
terance" — it is to be observed, there appeared unto 
them cloven tongues, like as of fire. Here again the 
tongues were as types or signs to them of the new mode 
of utterance; for every man heard them speak, each in 
their own language ; and they were all amazed, and 
marvelled, saying one to another, Are not these which 
speak Galileans ? and how hear we every man in our own 
tongue, wherein we were born ? Here I cannot but call 
to mind the words of a clergyman of the church, a doc- 
tor in divinity too, who told me " he had no opinion of 
a Holy Ghost who could not write grammar." This learn- 
ed divine, who said these words tome, is the author of 
many publications to civilize the world : and he also 
has since expressed his contempt of people's attending 
to the writings of a foolish old woman ; but it remains 
for this man to prove, how many of the apostles were 
learned men, 1 shall now leave this foolish doctor of 
divinity, and shall return to Acts ii. where there is ano- 
ther verse that may give offence to the learned. It is 
verse 17, being the words of the prophet Joel, which 
Peter one of the apostles then delivered : " And it shall 
come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out 
my Spirit upon all flesh ; and your sons and your daugh- 
ters shall prophesy ; and your young men shall see vi- 
sions ; and your old men shall dream dreams. It is need- 
less, at present, to say much about dreams; all 
persons, whether learned or not, know what they 
are ; but 1 must observe that, they form an important 
part of the wisdom of the Bible, as will be seen in the 
following pages, many dreams have proceeded from 
that Spirit of Wisdom, which is to be upon all flesh; 



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and which persons of every nation and language may 
and will understand, when the knowledges of the Lord 
cover the earth, as the waters cover the great deep ; 
for when this takes place, the substance is come of 
what stands on record, of the Apostles' being filled with 
the holy ghost, which was in them as the shadow. 
And as the tongues appeared like as fire, the fire shall 
try every man's works. 1 Cor. iii. 13. It is unnecessary 
forme to repeat the many passages in the Bible, all prov- 
ing that fire is a type of purification, as many pages 
might be filled $ for by fire, and by his sword, will 
the Lord plead with all flesh. Isaiah lxvL 15. It is how- 
ever necessary to remark, that the Apostles spake to 
every man, each in his own tongue, — the tongue 
wherein he was born ; and in the very same manner the. 
Spirit now speaks to Joanna ; for all persons think 
and ponder in the only language they were educated in : 
they can think in no other ; neither can they be instruc- 
ted in any other. I shall here introduce the words given 
to Joanna last summer. 

THE WORDS OF THE SPIRIT. 
<c I shall reason with man, from the different 
languages and tongues. Let a man come in a 
tongue to a nation, they never learnt, and speak 
in a tongue they never understood ; I ask thee, 
without an interpreter, how his words would be un- 
derstood ? Suppose a Frenchman was talking with 
thee in his own tongue, and to bring the parables 
from his own nation, what knowledge wouldest thou 
learn from all he had said ? In thy heart thou an- 
swerest, none ; perfectly so I tell thee of mankind ; 
should I come to them in the language of heaven, 
and bring men parables from the glory there ; what 
likeness would it be to the sons of men ? or what 
knowledge would they draw therefrom, any more 
than thou wouldest draw from a tongue thou hadst 

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never heard ? Therefore, I tell thee, the wisdom of 
men is madness and folly, to judge their Creator, 
who knoweth whereof ye are made and what parables 
ye may understand* Should a king go to a beggar, 
that was brought up in the greatest ignorance, and 
should the king address him with all his learning, 
what would a beggar understand from him ? or 
what answer would he make to his words ? only say 
he had spoke in a language he was never accustomed 
to ; perfectly so I tell thee of mankind ; the igno- 
rance of a beggar it not so much inferior to the wis- 
dom and learning of a king, as mankind's is inferior 
to the wisdom and learning of a God ; therefore, I 
tell thee, if I did not stoop to men to teach them 
parables in their own form, for them to learn and 
understand, men could never learn from me any- 
more wisdom and knowledge than thou couldest 
learn from the tongue of a Frenchman, without an 
interpreter, to know his meaning ; but where is the 
man who can interpret for me, if I did not stoop to 
them to speak in words they could interpret ? There 
is no man who could be my interpreter. — But now 
mark what I said in my Gospel — " They would 
strain at a gnat and swallow a camel ;" perfectly so 
I tell thee are thousands ; they strain at the parables 
I bring forward for man, and think them too simple 
for an all-wise God, while they swallow every vice 
that bringeth the parables upon their own heads. 
And now I shall tell thee further of thy pondering 
thoughts, as I have shewed thee why I brought 
these parables to the likeness of the Bible ; and dis- 
cern in the same books were all my strange dealings 
with thee, to shew the likeness of my dealings witli 
the prophets ; that what happened to them should 
happen to their nation ; for they were only set as 
types and shadows to the people ; perfectly so I tell 
thee was thy visitation, that now stands in these 
two books. It is a type and a shadow deep of the 
end; not only of this, but of all nations. There- 



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fore I tell thee, if men could discern clearly the 
mystery of these two books, they would clearly dis- 
cern the end of all ; for in those two, the end 
stands." 

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. 

I shall now submit a few observations to a certain 
class of men who call themselves Philosophers. Some 
there are who openly profess themselves to be Atheists ; 
of which I once doubted the possibility that such 
characters could any where be found ; although the 
Scriptures declare, "The Fool hath said in his heart, 
there is no God." But in regard to those who call them- 
selves Deists, they are numerous, not only among the 
philosophers and great writers of the present day, but 
are to be found amongst those professing Christianity, 
and who have their places of worship. All these dif- 
ferent characters, if any could be found honestly to re- 
flect at all, must believe it to be a great and universal 
truth, that all created Beings had their beginning 
from a Power that cannot be understood or compre- 
hended by the natural mind of man \ neither can man, by 
the same natural powers, either trace his origin, or the 
origin of the world in which he lives. No man, can 
know how he first received his life, but by a revelation 
from the same Almighty Power, that created him 
and breathed in him the breath of life ; for none but a 
fool can believe that man could give himself wisdom, 
any more than he could create himself; and whoever 
presumptuously believes the contrary, let him read with, 
attention the following lines from Joanna's book, called 
Straiige Effects of Faith, which I have mentioned in 
the beginning of this book, with the reasons for, my 
belief: 

'* But first let thy original be trae'd 
And tell me then what mighty thing thou wast. 

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When to the potent world my word gave birth. 
And fix'd my centre on the floating earth, 
Didst thou assist me with one single thought, 
Or my ideas rectify in ought?" 

Man could only have found himself a regular organized be- 
ing, with a mind which enabled him to reason, to discover 
what was truth, with every blessing around him, and a 
glorious creation before him ; that he was fearfully and 
wonderfully made; and could only be a recipient of 
wisdom, or the Image of his God that created him. It 
is certainly every man's duty to enquire, why he is not 
both wise and happy; or for what end he was created; that 
the world on which he lives and breathes, with its air 
and atmosphere, shall be impregnated with death and 
disease ; that instead of generating only wholesome 
particles, to give life and happiness, it is well known to 
all that, by continual changes of climate, diseases are 
continually succeeding each other ; that every created 
thing on the surface of the earth is only a living image 
of death and sorrow; and man after he contemplates on 
the whole, finds himself with an infected heart. These 
reflections must surely lead men to know what they 
ought to be, by reflecting what they are. Man will then 
find it his principal duty to know himself. If any man* 
whether deist, philosopher, or pretended christian, is 
hardy or bold enough to say, his wretched, wicked life 
proceeded from the seeds that were in him at his first 
creation, then man places all his misery and crimes to his 
Creator. For the frst and greatest promise we 
read of, and which promise can alone proceed from di- 
vine love, is to be found in the 1st. of Genesis, 26th 
verse, — "Let us make man in our image, after our like- 
ness." Therefore if man was created at frst with evil 
and malice in his heart, they must come from his 
Creator! or the fool may be justified, who says in his 
hjeart, there is no God. Every one who opposes truth, 



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because he will not see it, begins in ignorance and ends 
a tyrant. And the time will come, when the philoso- 
pher, so called, will know and feel the awful conse- 
quence of degrading his Creator, and making sport 
with his Name. There are men distinguished for learn- 
ing, and what is called knowledge, who deny at this pre- 
sent day any supernatural cause, and pretend to reason, 
as they say, from effects in outward nature, until they be- 
come frantic with the pride of self-elevation ; and at last 
fancy that wisdom not only proceeds from, but even be- 
gins in, themselves. In this state of madness or folly, 
they must substitute falsehood for truth, like as the 
father of lies is described in the Bible, and from whom 
will be found every evil to proceed. — The love of self- 
elevation must produce contempt for others ; and to love 
their neighbour as themselves is impossible; because their 
delight is to rule, until hatred must be substituted for 
love, and falsehood for truth. The mind is thus drawn 
away from the belief in a God ; because man, in this 
state, hates every power superior to himself — like the 
devil, in whose image and likeness he is now become. 
Although man in this state of insanity does not believe in 
a devil or any infernal powers ; but denies the existence 
either of a God or a Devil, he allows of the existence 
of nature ; because it is present before him, and he daily 
knows that he has the senses of feeling, seeing, hearing, 
smelling, and tasting ; and with this knowledge of 
the five senses — dogs, and other animals, who are 
without the rational knowledge to explain the use of 
these senses, although they have them, are by far his 
superiors. In this state of masquerade many men do 
now live, with the devil concealing himself under the 
mask, that he may reign and rule, by artfully fixing the 
mind only to outward nature, to promote universal in- 
fidelity. These men, whom I shall call Naturalists, 
form only a part of the enemies to truth ; for when we 



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see the numerous race of hypocrites, who have the name 
of the Lord in their mouths, affecting nothing but holi- 
ness and purity, at the same time deny to their fellow- 
creatures the least spark of divine love or grace; parti- 
cularly to those who dare to differ with them in opinion, 
and who believe that a devil was purposely formed, and by 
the God of love too ! ! for the endless torment of those 
who are not of the elect number. It is needless to enu- 
merate the variety of enemies, now called Religionists, 
all contradicting each other ; yet, united to oppose uni- 
versal Redemption, and the universal Love of Christ ! ! 
Upon reflection, it cannot be a matter of surprise to me, 
when I see that Philosophers, Deists and Arians, Athe- 
ists and puritanical Calvinists, who can have wo charity 
for the God of the universe, that they should abuse and 
slander those who wish to have no other weapon but the 
sword of truth. The days are now arrived, when there 
is scarce faith upon the earth ; and the days of Satan 
must now be shortened, otherwise no flesh can be saved. 
Mark xxiii. 20. These passages of Scripture are ex- 
plained in the words given to Joanna, in her writings ; 
and for the present I shall leave them. Many divines 
and others, place every crime to originate in the human 
heart; concealing the cause of its corruption, they 
speak of human depravity and wickedness: all of which 
are well known in our courts of justice, and our daily 
intercourse with human society. In our courts of jus- 
tice, in the indictment of a murderer, or traitor, it be- 
gins in this form of words — " Not having the fear 
of God before his eyes; but being moved by the insti- 
gation of the devil, did, &c. &c." They also quote 
from the Scriptures, " That the heart of man is prone to 
evil, as the sparks fly upwards." All this, in the cor- 
rupt state of nature, is certainly true; they ought also 
to inform their hearers, who it is that makes the fire of 



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evil that produces the sparks. In the greatest and blessed 
promise given in the first chap, of Genesis, ver. 26— " Let 
•ks make man/' &c. one cannot but believe, when man 
was formed after the image and likeness of his Creator, 
he must be only prone to good : He neither knew of the 
existence of any evil; and his mind must be void of all 
suspicion of evil. A Being of love and wisdom can- 
not produce hatred and falsehood ; and man in his crea- 
tion could know nothing but loye and truth ; therefore, 
had he remained as he was created, the heart and mind of 
man could only be prone to reproduce these divine quali- 
ties. The ^beastly inoculation of evil came afterwards; 
man's nature is now become so changed, that the divine 
image is nearly gone, and would soon be no more seen 
in this world, if the Creator of angels and men did not 
interfere with his mighty power, to shorten those days, 
and restore all things to order under himself, that the; 
kingdoms of this world may become the kingdom of the 
living God, and bring man back to his inheritance for 
which he was created. I have heard it said, in conver- 
sation with various-persons, when speaking of the wick- 
edness we daily see and hear of, in all classes of men, 
and also from the history of past ages, that its 
permission proved God to be the author; particularly with, 
one who is deemed a prodigy in learning ; after I had 
mentioned to him the observations that I had made of 
men throwing the blame on their Creator, as being the 
cause of evil, he replied — He c%uld have prevented it if 
he would. I replied, that compulsive goodness was no- 
thing — no person can be praised for an act of virtue, if 
its appearance proceeds from compulsion or force; as it 
then can only be an appearance, but not a reality : a God 
of order cannot contradict himself, to make compulsion 
to be called obedience ; if we were not created free- 
agents we could have no choice ; there can be no love 
by compulsion ; or with words to this effect : and our 



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Conversation finished. I have since reflected much upon 
this ; because many disputes have arisen about what is 
called the Origin of Evil ; and it has often occurred to 
my mind, that whatever had a beginning, which came 
not from God, will have an end. In the Book of Wis- 
dom ii chap. 23, and 24 verse, it is said, " God made 
man to be immortal, and made him an image of his own 
eternity. Nevertheless, through envy of the devil came 
death into the world." Here evil first began in this 
world. Now it must be evident to every man's under- 
standing, there must be a freedom of choice in all created 
beings, angels as well as men, and the happiness of all 
rests upon their obedience to the divine will ; but 
there can be no such thing as compulsive obedience ; 
the two words compulsion and obedience can no more 
be joined together than heaven and hell can become 
one in union. For any one to say God could prevent evil, 
if he would, might as well say, when God gave man his 
choice to obey his commands or not, he compelled man 
to be disobedient : and the remark, which this learned man 
made, was from the same infernal source as the words 
were first made to Eve, to intice her to taste the for- 
bidden fruit, and who afterwards made Adam to blame 
his Creator for giving him the woman. Therefore the 
devilish and satanic spirit that produced the fall of man, 
and inoculated the human race with evil and misery, 
once was an angel of light, united to his Creator, and par- 
took of his eternal wisdom and inexhaustible love in 
realms of bliss ; and whose immense happiness flowed 
to him and those joined with him, by their voluntary 
obedience : and the least departure or deviation from 
their obedience must produce rebellion, which is the 
beginning of every evil, truly described as the sin of 
witchcraft. Here the mind oi Lucifer became inverted: 
but in disguise, as an angel of light (which he once 



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was) he since goes on, by every form of purity and every 
outward appearance of virtue. In the divine state of 
free agency, in which Lucifer was at first created, stands 
every created being, whether angels or men, to this day, 
and ever will so continue. Although God created him 
an angel, yet he did not prevent him from being a devil. 
If God had by his power so prevented him, he then must 
have ceased to be an angel, having no choice ; for the 
essence of tyranny begins in compulsion to destroy free 
agency; and when compulsion is used by a God of Love, 
whose darling attribute is mercy, it is only to preserve 
those who by their obedience wish from their hearts to 
be in union with his Spirit; therefore judgments are 
called his strange works. It was his strange work to drive 
the fallen angels out of heaven, to prevent them from an- 
noying, or endeavouring to destroy the happiness of those 
angels who were faithful in their love. After this the 
wisdom of the Most High gave him six thousand years to 
be on this earth, to try him, and permittedhim to tempt* ; 
and therefore he is called, in Holy Writ, the tempter ; and 
when man became disobedient to divine command, he 
fell under Satan's power, which made him to be the 
prince of this world. Here came his great power to act 
by compulsion ; the reign of terror here began on earth, 
to devour and destroy whenever the good fruit appeared 
in man in all ages. And in the Sixth Book, printed and 
published by Joanna at the end of the year 1S01, the 
reader will see how in every age the evil fruit destroyed 
the good. — Here the reader will reflect upon the wisdom 
of the Almighty, in his command to man, not to eat of 
the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and of evil ; 
for man was not to know the evil, but only the good. 
Every man whose mind is satisfied of the existence of an 
Almighty Being, who was before all things, and whose 
eye is every where present, cannot believe it possible, 
* See Strange Effects of Faith, Book iv. p. 147 ; and p. 27 of thig. 

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that he can be deceived or be betrayed by a devil, who at 
his first creation, as an angel> was the work of his hands ; 
and by foreseeing what passes in the heart and mind of 
Lucifer, and every other being, cannot by his divine 
wisdom put bounds to the evil, and provide a remedy ; 
for there canbeno eternity to evil, which had a beginning 
and must have an end. The man who doubts the wis- 
dom and fore- knowledge of God, may as well deny his 
power of creation ; or man may join with Satan and say 
he created himself. I shall here transcribe the words of 
the Spirit of Wisdom, from a book published by Joanna 
Southcott, called C( Sound the Alarm" page 58; at the 
same time request the reading of her Prayer, which pre- 
cedes that communication. The reader will see in the 
communication, that the devil began by folly, which 
progressively destroyd the wisdom he had once received, 
and he became a tyrant of darkness — as man became 
dead to the knowledge of the Most High when he fell 
under his power. 

A person asked Joanna, " Why the Lord created the 
devil to be such a sinful being in heaven, when he fore- 
knew he would be so ? " Here is the answer of the Spirit 
to Joanna : 

(i Now I will answer thee, of the man that asked why I 
created the devil, knowing what a wicked being he would 
be? Here the wisdom of man hath tifken in question the 
wisdom of his maker.- But know, O vain men, you 
must first feel the pain of sickness, before you know the 
pleasure of health. A man that never felt poverty, knows 
not what he enjoys by his riches. Neither did the an- 
gels in heaven know from whence all their happiness 
flowed, that I had created in the realms of bliss. There, 
fore as worms breed in wood, so did evil breed in the 
devil and fallen angels. They could not believe that all 
happiness sprang from me. Envy and pride entered 
their hearts, — as worms into wood, till it begins to decay 



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and moulder into dust. Just so did evil enter into the 
heart of the devil — that thought he was a created being 9 
though not of me, but of himself— equal in might, 
majesty, and power — and that he ought to be worshipped 
in heaven, equal with me. Thus evil entered his heart 
without my creating it ; and as wood is grown, and is made 
into timber for use, and the worms breed in it of them- 
selves, without being there when it was first formed and 
fashioned * : just so did evil enter into the heart of the 
devil, like the worms that bread of themselves in timber, 
till he became corrupt all through, by pride, malice, and 
envy. Thus did evil breed of itself. Then I separated 
the evil from the good, and cast him out of heaven, with 
the angels that worshipped him, and placed his power 
below to shew his reign, and created man upon the 
earth, where he had power to tempt man, as he tempted 
the angels in heaven. Therefore when I created man, I 
well knew the depth of Satan's arts, that he would find 
away to have an influence over him, as he had over the 
angels in heaven. Therefore I said, it was not good for 
the man to be alone, and said, I would make an help- 
mate for his good, and placed the tree of knowledge in 
the garden, that if the man eat thereof, he should be 
dead — " to Knowledge; 1 but did not add the last words 
that I meant. Now, this command was given to the- 
man, and known to the devil, who thought if he could 
impose on the weakness of the woman, he should destroy 
the works of the creation — and say, the woman I made 
for man's good was for his hurt; — and then prove to the 
fallen angels— I had as greatly erred in casting them out 
of heaven,— as I erred in the creation, in making the 
woman for man's good to be his helpmate : but man be- 
came dead to knowledge. How then could she be for his 
good ? It was concealed from the knowledge of man to 

* Every thing has a form corresponding with its essence. 
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this day, how she could be for man's good, that the wo- 
man was then made, who, they judged, brought the fall 
on man. Here with man it might appear impossible, 
but with God all things are possible — and the mystery 
is possible and plain ; for, the man was made of the 
dust of the ground ; the woman was made of flesh and 
blood, taken from man in estate of perfection. But know, 
he was not then the perfect man, but divided into two 
living souls and bodies', and Satan betrayed that part of 
him, that I pronounced for his good — and man cast his 
blame on her, and me forgiving her. But on the serpent* 
that is, the devil, was the woman's blame cast : — ^and 
know the curse I then pronounced on him, that that 
curse should fall on him above every living creature — 
that he should creep on his belly, as having no t'ooc to 
stand upon. This, as a serpent, was pronounced against 
the devil, and I said I would cause enmity between his 
seed and her seed, and it should bruise his head. Now, 
answer me, O ye sons ofmen v did Satan outwit me? 
or shall I outwit him? If I do not fulfil the intent of 
my heart, Satan must have outwitted me in the creation, 
as he is now trying to outwit men in their redemption. 
But know, O vain men, if he outwits man, he cannot 
outwit me, who made the heavens and formed the 
earth, and knew all the depth s-of Satan's arts : There- 
fore I laid a plan in the creation to make room for man's 
redemption, by the woman that I created for man's good, 
by casting her blame on Satan s head; and that every soul 
will find in the end. Then will all the earth know I did 
not err in the creation, when I bring in your redemption. 
For every footing Satan hath got on earth mu^t be taken 
away, when I come to fulfil my promise, to bruise his 
head ; and bring the curse on him as I pronounced. Then 
will men say, "Let God be true, and every man a liar," 
that says he erred in the creation, and did not make 



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the woman for man's good. But know, I am God, and 
change not. It is man that hath sought out many in- 
ventions to wrest the Scriptures to his own condemna- 
tion, not discerning the Lord's body till his coming— 
that as my heel was bruised ; so must Satan s bead be 
bruised also. But this knowledge man has been dead to, 
ever since the fall, which way it will be accomplished, 
till the glory of the Lord was revealed 1° the -woman, 
that she should ask and receive, that her joys should be 
full, to be avenged of her adversary the devil, whose 
subtle arts caused her fall ; and my promise must be 
her plead, and my honour is engaged to save all to the 
utmost, who now believe my word is, "Yea and Amen** 
What I promise I shall fulfil ; therefore as dust returns 
to dust, the creation must turn to what 1 created them 
for at first. So if it did not prove for man's good then 
that she was betrayed, it shall be for man's good that 
she pleads the promise, which was made in the crea- 
tion, to bring in man's redemption. Therefore have I 
made all her Prophecies more true and plain, if man can 
discern them through, than any prophecies given to man, 
that you may now begin to see the woman is your help- 
mate for your good. But if all were given plain and 
true to man, they would not want, nor receive the- 
woman, for their good ; but judge they knew all them- 
selves. Therefore I have foiled the prophecies of men, 
and made it more plain to thewoman, that you may be- 
gin to lift up your heads, and " Kno-w that your Redemp- 
tion drawetb near'," and my words are near to be fulfilled, 
that Satan's curse, which was pronounced, shall fall upon 
his head — and my kingdom of peace near to be estab- 
lished. But all these mysteries you must dig deep to 
find them ; for this is the pearl of great price/' 

To ascribe evil to proceed from God, a man may as 
well say darkness proceeds from the sun, when he shuts the 



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windows of his chamber : for darkness is a deprivation of 
light, as an evil mind, which produces hatred and every 
base principle, is a deprivation of heavenly love and good- 
ness. The world under the s fall is in darkness, originally 
produced by the prince of darkness, when man fell un- 
der his power; and, as I before observed, he is called the 
prince of this world. The Bible is a divine collection of 
records on purpose to shew to man the effects of his 
fallen state, that in the end, from the fountain of all 
goodness, he may see also the origin of evil and its end; 
many infidels have blamed the Bible, in recording so 
much evil, instead of admiring it for its impartiality, in 
shewing what man has been, and what he is under the 
powers of darkness, when what are called the best of 
men in every age have fallen into evil deeds, "except Jesus 
Christ, of whom every historian, and men of every descrip- 
tion have united with Pilate to say — " I find no fault in 
him." The first man, Adam, a created being after the 
image of his God, who had no human father, was se- 
duced into disobedience, through the ignorance of the 
woman, as they were without any suspicion of evil; for 
a suspicion of evil could only proceed from a knowledge 
that evil existsd ; and the power of Satan was at that 
time unknown to them; and as he had before succeeded in 
tempting angels, (for in the ii Peter 4.) * c God spared not 
the angels that sinned," there can be no doubt, but he 
would have had the same success with man, had there 
been no woman to betray ; for it was not through the 
instrumentality of a woman that the angels fell. But 
the duty of the first man, Adam, was to stand in his 
obedience, which would have been their protection from 
every temptation, and /Vdam would never have used the 
words infused into him by Satan, to blame his Creator, 
for giving him the woman ; but as he fell by the tempta- 
tions of Satan, through the woman, man will in the end 
praise his Maker for making the woman to be his helpmate 



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for his good, by the Spirit of Christ* when He comes in 
power to redeem the world from death, hell, and sin. 
Christ came into the world born of a woman, of the Holy- 
Ghost. The only two persons that were without any 
human father were the first man Adam, and the second 
man Adam, who was the Lord from heaven, (on 
whom the first Adam cast the blame.) Jesus knew the 
tempter's arts, and suffered for man that inexpressible 
misery, which the mind cannot conceive. Human feel- 
ings are as different from divine, as light from darkness; 
we know that a good and humane man feels pain in this 
world, when he beholds an act of cruelty; but a 
man, in whose breast pity is a stranger, feels no torment, 
and loves the world with its cruelties. From this we may 
conceive only a faint idea of the sufferings of Christ, 
who was a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief, — 
who sweated drops of blood. During the time he was 
on this earth, as a man, he was, in common with every 
earthly being, subjected to every temptation from the 
prince of this world, as is mentioned in Luke iv ; for 
Satan well knew who he was ; and when he shewed the 
Lord the kingdoms of this world, in a moment of time 
— which he offered to give, with the glory of them, he 
added, "For that is delivered unto me: and to whomso- 
ever I will, I give it." In this chapter are the tempta- 
tions of Christ recorded, and his victories over them ; 
he not having evil in himself, although subject to its ef- 
fects; but by his divine power he resisted the temptations 
of thesame tempter, who at first by arts seduced our first 
parents to evil ; and who is described with his crimes 
and arts in various parts of the Bible, and also in Joan- 
na's Books, until we find, in Luke 22, Satan's entering 
into Judas to betray his Lord, and who was afterwards 
crucified ; and before he expired, he said, It is finished — 
and here finished the power that Saltan had over him> 



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who as a man came in the lowest state of humiliation, into 
a world under the dominion of evil, and by his combats 
and victories, he successively glorified that human body 
he received from his mother, and united it to the Divine*, 
and as our Lord had during his natural life proved that he 
had no spot or blemish of evil, and who resisted every 
temptation unto his death, his body did not see cor- 
ruption, but he arose again from the tomb with his 
glorified body. Here let the reader mark and reflect up- 
on his dying words — It is finished, and not to fall 
into the fatal error of many, who say these words signi- 
fy the redemption of the world from Satan's power, 
when it is so v/ell known his power and mischief has 
continued in the world, over the human race, up to this 
day, and the world is not ye redeemed. For here was 
the heel of the seed of the woman bruised ; as Christ 
was born of the woman without a human father : and it 
is by the seed of the woman- that Satan's head is to be 
bruised, by the Spirit of Christ in her, at his second 
coming ; and all those who are united to the woman in 
obedience, are spiritually the seed of the woman ; and 
those who are in the world in this spiritual union, when 
Satan receives his curse, (which must be above every 
creature, whose crimes and arts, are as much beyond 
human conception, as the love of Christ is beyond every 
human love ; then it is that our vile bodies will be 
changed like unto Christ's glorious body, which he had 
glorified by his victories and arose from the grave. It is 
necessary to remark, that from the fall of man up to 
this day, there has been no human being but what has- 
committed evil, or fell under some temptations ; neither 
.could any man whatever stand at all in his own strength ; 
and when Christ had finished his work, as a suffering 
Saviour, he said — "Father forgive them, they know 

* Father, glorify thy name. John xxii. 28. 



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.not what they do. But it is the murderer who entered 
Judas, that knew who he was, and caused his innocent 
blood to be shed, who is therefore without any claim to 
forgiveness or pity, not having a heart of repentance like 
Judas. When Satan left the man he despaired and 
died. It was not the spirit of Judas that betrayed his 
Lord ; for in St. Luke xxii. 3. it says, " Then Satan en- 
tered Judas." Judas was only the instrument, or hand, 
not the principal; for the 21 verse might be thus read> 
" But behold the hand of Satan that betrayeth me is 
with MS on the table. — Judas was here the hand of Satan* 
had it been the man's spirit, then these words — M Satan 
entered Judas," <could be of no ufe, and could have no 
meaning ; and if the truth is here to be doubted, then 
we must doubt the whole : for my own part, I believe 
all or none ; for we must be either all right, or entirely 
wrong. The Jews were at this time so blinded by the 
prince of this world, that they did not believe Christ was 
the Son of God . Here was a'distinction made between the 
crimes of men, in their state of ignorance and darkness, 
and the power that seduced them to evil, not only at that 
time, but from the beginning. While the whole creation 
has been groaning and travailing in pain, and doth still 
so continue up to this day ; while temptation has always 
succeeded temptation ; the evil fruit constantly devour- 
ing and destroying the good; and since Christ and his 
apostles have fallen; in the very name of Christ and his 
apostles — has every cruelty been committed, and every 
base art has been practised : — for there is not a religion 
having the name of Christ for its institution, but has been 
used has a mask for crimes; even the great public edi- 
fices that have been raised to the worship of the Al- 
mighty, in different parts of what is called the christian 
world, have been named after the apostles o£ Christ and 

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other saints, but who would be despised were they now 
alive.* Yet in all periods of human misery, the devil has 
not succeeded to destroy the whole ; and notwithstanding 
his power men have resisted him, even through tor- 
ments, unto death ; not that this could ever be by man's 
feeble power ; but they have honestly invoked and im- 
plored the aid of the divine Spirit, which has been to 
them a tower of strength, and made them triumph over 
the tyrant with their expiring breath. 

There are literary characters of this present age, who 
profess to be Atheists, and who employ their pens 
either, as they presumptuously say, for the improvment 
of the public, or to the support of their families. I have 
personally known such men, although I once doubted 
the possibility. These men, sometimes call themselves 
Naturalists ; and as these and many other men aspire to- 
be gods, as they despise the wisdom of their Creator," 
and substitute what the devil has infused into their 
minds; (and whose existence they also deny;) for the 
denial of a devil is now almost universal ; particularly by 
atheists, deists, philosophers, or naturalists, as I have be- 
fore observed) it well suits his artful design, to 'cause 
men to blame their Creator for that deluge of crimes 
that has overspread the world ever since man departed 
from the Divine Spirit. These men, called Atheists, 
or Naturalists, attribute all wisdom to nature, and the 
natural senses. But to them I will submit the follow- 
ing observations : There is a natural truth to be founcj 
in the seventh verse of the second chapter of Genesis, in 
a few well-chosen words, which these fools can never 
improve, and it is not in the power of language more 
clearly to express ; the words are these: " And the Lord 

* The Spaniards have even named their ships of war, after divine 
-and holy names ; one first-rate man of war, brought into a British 
port, was called the Saviour of the World ! There aie also Knijjbte 
of the Holy Ghost!! ! 



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God formed man of the dust of the ground." Let these 
men find out of what other matter are our bodies formed, 
as also the bodies of every living animal, from the great- 
est to the least ; even those that are so minute that they 
can scarcely be discerned by the human eye ; but by 
the help of glasses are found to have a wonderfully 
organized form of bones, muscles, &c. all are formed from 
the dust; the same also of animals of the largest magni- 
tude. Do not the houses, in which we dwell, and all 
the furniture, made from timber and other materials, 
come from the dust ? the clothing of our bodies is 
made from animal and vegetable substances ; we eat 
animals for food, who have again been fed by 
vegetables, which again, by springing out of the earth 
are produced from the dust. Let those who have 
read the history of nations and empires, and reflected on 
the stately and magnificent structures of antiquity, the 
remains of departed grandeur, and also the buildings of 
these latter ages, consider from whence they came; 
let any man, whether learned or not, view the cathedral 
of St. Pauls, and other buildings of this great capital 
London — he must cry out, " Dust thou art." These 
few words, which I have taken from the third chapter 
of Genesis, and which a child may be easily made to 
understand, cannot be rejected but by fools, who say in 
their hearts, there is no God ; when from every common 
observation the truth is daily before us. These im- 
portant words, also convey another meaning, for every 
man to know, and which forms an important question- — 
why it should be so particularly mentioned, that man 
was made of the dust of the ground, if the Almighty had 
never created beings in any other way, or from any other- 
materials ? The answer immediately occurs to the mind : 
that there was a new mode of creation, different from the 
creation of angelic beings, and before unknown to them, 



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and that the Almighty in his wisdom thought proper to 
make a new race of beings, different from others ; and the 
reasons why are clearly explained in Joanna's Fourth Book, 
page 148 ; where, speaking of the rebellion and pride of 
Lucifer, who was cast out from the society of the just, 
the same as a man, or set of men may be thrust out of 
societies on earth, when he or they become obnoxious. 
Here are the words given to Joanna in that page : 

'* And soon from thence! cast him hence, 

And did him then dethrone} 
To try again his future reign 

1 soon created man 

I must here beg leave to observe, if man, who is of 
the dust, and fallen to the dust, unites with the Spirit of 
Christ now with the woman, he will be an instrument to 
make the serpent lick the dust ; — pride will have its 
fall, and man will be redeemed. As it is evident to every 
person's understanding that there are beings of a different 
order, whose bodies were not composed of earthly sub- 
stances, or the dust of the ground, like unto man, and 
who have invisibly communicated with man in different 
ages, as messengers, or as ministering spirits to guard 
and counsel him against the power of evil ; and to be 
the messengers to bring glad tidings to man for future 
blessings, that he may, in the end, be united to his 
Creator, and bear his image, it would beunncessary 
to bring all the numerous proofs from the Old as well as 
the New Testament, when every reader has his Bible to 
refer to, where he may search for himself, if he behonest 
to himself ; for by being honest to himself, he will feel 
it his duty, and his principal duty too, to be honest to 
his God, by believing him to be faithful and true, and 
that he never can vary and change, like man. For if we 
do but reflect, how this visible creation must have ori- 



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ginally burst forth, and how it has since continued in\ 
such wonderful order, and daily presents itself to our 
view, if we choose to open cur eyes to contemplate these 
wonderful works, we shall then own that all must have 
been produced by a God of Order, and not of confusion. 
No person thus reflecting can be so void of reason as to 
believe that this World was created for bad men and 
devils, to reign and rula in, and for ever to counteract 
his divine order; and that he created all things to 
continue only as instruments of misery, and eternally to 
remain so; and that there will not come a day when the 
fulness of time is come — when he will awake as one out 
of sleep to restore all things to order under him, when 
the last thing he will destroy is death, with its sting of 
sin, that God may be all in all. What man with any 
honesty of mind, or feeling in his heart, will wish to 
perpetuate the sting of sin ? Because man fell into 
darkness, shall the love of God also expire with the 
wisdom of man? and that he has not power to restore 
man to himself, who first created him and breathed into 
him the breath of life when man became a living soul? 
Although the body of man came from the dust of the 
ground, the wisdom he had could only be spiritual, and 
must come from spirit and eternal life. The first 
created man would, to human wisdom, have been a soli" 
tary being, had there been no spiritual beings or angels 
of another order of creation for his associates ; the 
heavens and the earth must have been one in union, and 
communion -, and while man continued in his happy state 
of obedience, the angelic spciety were with him for his 
true happiness, unfolding to him the love and wisdom of 
an eternal God, as best suited his state of reception to be 
a partaker with them. And the spiritual mode they had 
to communicate ideas cannot be known at this day, by 
any natural or acquired language ; nothing of this can 



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ever be known but by revelation; and whatever 
characters have been thus favoured, at different periods 
since the fall, to converse with ministering spirits or an- 
gels, it must have been by a spiritual preparation only; by 
the putting off man *.s wisdom, like the shoes from his 
feet, that is made by himself, that he may stand on 
holy ground, by which God has preserved a witness 
of himself in different ages, with a view to the end. 

When I said man would be a solitary being, if he had 
no society with angels, I beg not to be understood there 
could be no communication or nnion with his God with- 
out them; but as by the established order of infinite 
wisdom, there are principalities and powers emanating, 
from the eternal majesty of God, who can have no equal 
to himself, all must be inferior ; but as from the bosom 
of the Father proceeds the Son, who is One with 
the Father *, the Son is as a medium of communica- 
tion to all created beings, whether angels or men, to de- 
scend and commune with them, according to their states; 
and who, to restore man to himself, took man's nature 
upon him — even his fallen nature, from the Virgin Mary, 
which was God manifested in the flesh ; and in Matt A. 21 . 
was called Jesus. — Angels and men, when in union of spirit 
have some resemblance, like equality, to each other; 
but with infinite varieties and degrees, greater or less, 
all emanating from the eternal source of love and wisdom, 
from which arises the divine freedom of society, — the 
true liberty of the Sons of God; which also agrees with 
our Saviour's words — " In my Father's house are many 
mansions." When the fatal change took place by the 

* " I and my Son were both as One j 

I took him from my side, 
And so my plan I plat d for man, 

In my own likeness all." 

Fourth Bool: nf Prophecies, p. 149. 



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fall, the spiritual vision was withdrawn and closed. This 
was out of pure love and mercy to man ; for when man 
became subjected to the powers of hell, nature became 
changed ; the will of God was not done on earth, as it 
was done in heaven. Had the spiritual vision continued 
open in man, and the infernal host before him and about 
him, nothing but horrors could ever attend him, without 
any repose ; what is now invisible to him could produce 
nothing but despair ; and it is by invisible means he is 
now preserved from his invisible enemies. Here again, 
the mercies of God most wonderfully present themselves, 
whose love is constantly with us, although in disguise ; 
and who commands the rage of the sea, and compels it 
to have its bounds ; for man is not to be lost in the 
tempest; there is a shore, which will be his rest — and 
he will see it at the end. 

This spiritual language must remain unknown until 
man is redeemed from the fall, and the Kingdom of 
Christ is established ; when the last will be first ; the 
t Alpha will be the Omega; and the Creator will then have 
become the Redeemer ; then will the knowledges of the 
Lord cover the earth, as the waters cover the great deep; 
the angels of God can then descend, to be the com- 
panions of mankind. And here I am led to make some 
remarks upon — 

DREAMS, AND THE VISITATION OF ANGELS, 

By the proofs that are in the Bible. We read in Genesis 
xviii — That the Lord appeared to Abraham in the plains 
of Mamre : and he sat in the tent door — and three men 
stood by him, &c. and in chap, xix — And there came two 
angels to Sodom at even ; and Lot sat in the gate of 
Sodom; in chap, xxi: — When Abraham stretched 
forth his hand to slay his son, the angel of the Lord cal- 
led to him out of heaven ; and, in the fifteenth verse, the an- 



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gel of the Lord called out of heaveri a second time, 
— ■ ut I particularly wish to engage the reader's at- 
tention to the tvventy-eighth chapter, where Isaac had 
called Jacob to arise and go to Padan-aram, to take a wife 
of the daughters of Laban, his mother's brother, to in- 
herit the land to which he was a stranger, and which 
God had given to Abraham and his seed, one hundred 
and fifty years before, in these words, chap. xvii. ver. 8. 
And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee 
(in their generations.) the land wherein thou art a 
6tranger; all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting 
possession; and I will be their God." Now to re- 
turn to chap, xxviii. 10th ver. we read that Jacob 
went out of Beersheba, and went toward Haran ; he 
lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night ; 
because the sun was set : And he lay down to sleep ; and 
he dreamed ; and behold a ladder set upon the earth? 
and the top of it reached to heaven ; and behold the an- 
gels of God ascending and descending on it ; and behold 
the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord 
God of Abraham thy Father, and the God of Isaac: the 
land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to 
thy seed; and thy seed shall he as the dust of the earth, and 
thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and 
to the north, and to the sOuth : and hi thee and in thy seed 
shall all the families of the earth be blessed, &c. 
8tc. Here is a dream, and a dream too that demands the 
serious attention of all ; for all will find it a pleasing 
dream of the end. Next I shall proceed to chap, xxxvii. 
— And Jacob, afterwards called Israel, dwelt in the land 
wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan* 
with his generations. Joseph was seventeen years old, 
and was feeding the flock with the brethren : verse 3 — 
Now .Israel loved Joseph, more than all his children ; 
u because he was the son of his old age:" and when his 



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brethren saw their father's love to him, they hated him ; 
verse 8 — And they hated him yet the more for his 
dreams and his words; verse 11 — And his brethren envied 
him ; but his father observed the saying ; verse 1 8 — 
And they conspired against him to slay him ; and when 
they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, 
they said one to another, — " Behold this dreamer cometh ;" 
verse 22— And Reuben delivered him out of their hands, 
that they might not kill him* but cast him in a pit ; and 
Judah saved him from perishing in the pit, saying, verse 
26 — " What profit, if we slay our broth er^ and conceal 
his% blood? — Joseph was sold to the Ishmaelites^ and 
they brought him into Egypt ; verse 36— And they sold 
him to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, and a captain of 
the guards. Chap, xxxix. 2— ^And the Lord was with 
Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in 
the house of his master the Egyptian. Here again, by 
the false story of Potiphar's wife, verse 20^ Joseph was 
put into prison, a place where the king's prisoners were 
bound; verse 21 — But the Lord was with Joseph, and 
shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of 
the keeper of the prison. And the chief of the butlers, 
and the chief of the bakers were put into prison by the 
wrath of Pharaoh, where Joseph was bound. They 
dreamed a dream, both of them, each man his dream, in 
one night, which were interpreted by Joseph, who said, 
Do not interpretations belong to God ? And Joseph's 
interpretations of both dreams came to pass.*- — And on 
the third day, on Pharaoh's birth day, he restored the 
chief butler, who did not remember Joseph, but forgot 
him. Chap, xlii— At the end of two full years, Pharaoh 
dreamed, awoke, and dreamed again, both in one night. 
In the morning Pharaoh's spirit was troubled ; and he 

* Read (bis chapter- 

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sent for the wise men and magicians ; but none could in- 
terpret the dreams to Pharaoh. When the chief butler, 
who had been in prison, remembered his faults to Joseph 
—he told Pharaoh of Joseph's interpretation of his dream, 
and the baker's dream, when in prison (two years before) 
verse 14—" Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph * and 
they brought him hastily out of the dungeon ; and he 
shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in 
unto Pharaoh." And Pharaoh told to Joseph his dreams, 
which no one could interpret; verse 16 — And Joseph 
answered Pharaoh, saying, '• It is not in me: God shall 
give Pharaoh an answer of peace/' After Pharaoh had 
told his two dreams, Joseph said the dreams of Pharaoh 
are one : God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to 
do. And by Joseph was given the true interpretation to 
Pharaoh of the seven years of plenty and the seven years 
of famine throughout the land, and over the earth. A£» 
ter this, Pharaoh said unto Ids servants, Can we find 
such a one as this is, a man in whom the spirit of God 
is ? And Joseph was thirty years old, when he stood be- 
fore Pharaoh ; and Joseph was appointed to rule over the 
house of Pharaoh, and over all his people; only on the 
throne was Pharaoh greater than Joseph; verse 51, 
and the seven years of dearth began to come; verse 55 
— And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the 
people cried to Pharaoh for bread : and Pharaoh said 
^^tmto all the Egyptians, go unto Joseph: "What he 
saith to you, do." — And the famine was overall the 
face of the earth; chap, xlii — And when Jacob knew 
there was corn in Egypt, he sent Joseph's ten brethren 
from Canaan to buy corn, that they might live, and not 
die; verse 7 — And when Joseph saw his brethren, he 
knew them ; and Joseph remembered the dreams, vjbicb 
he "dreamed of them, which caused his brethren's envy, 
and himself to be sold, when they were tempted to skij, 



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him. — And when Joseph had made himself known to his 
brethren, chap xlv. 4. he said, "I am Joseph your 
brother, whom you sold into Egypt ; now therefore be 
not grieved nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me 
hither: for God did send me before you, to preserve 
life. For these two years hath the famine been in the 
land, and yet there are rive years, in the which there shall 
be neither earing nor harvest ; verse 7 — And God sent me 
before you to preserve a posterity in the earth, and to save 
your lives by a great deliverance. So now it wa9 
not you that sent me, but God." 

After these words of Joseph, I shall not presume to 
add, only to observe, that these marvellous events were 
brought absut by Dreams. I cannot refrain from bring- 
ing forth the words of a man, that prodigy in learning, 
whom I mentioned in a former part of this book, who 
endeavoured to persuade me against the belief in dreams, 
and who totally rejects every thing supernatural ; he 
said, Dreams were only the shaking of the nerves. By 
what means the nervous system could produce such 
dreams, again to produce such events, is for him and 
those physicians who agree with him in the same opi- 
nions, to explain. — I now return', verse 16 — It pleased 
Pharaoh well, and his servants, that Joseph's brethren 
were come; and Pharaoh said unto Joseph, " Say unto 
thy brethren, This do ye ;— and take your father and 
your households, and come unto me: and I will give you 
the good of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat of the 
fat of the land." — And the brethren returned to Israel 
their father, to bring him to Egypt, to dwell in the land 
of Goshen, that he might be nigh unto Joseph. While 
Israel was on his journey, with all he had, God spake to 
Israel in the visions of the night, and he said, " I am 
God the God of thy father ; fear not to go down to Egypt : 

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for I will there make of thee a great nation": chap, 
xlvi.4. And the number of souls that came with Jacoty 
into Egypt, who were sent for by Joseph, were threescore 
and six, to dwell in the land of Goshen in Egypt, to be 
nourished during the famine. And Jacob, or Israel, lived 
in Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was 
an hundred and forty-seven years. And Israel said unto 
Joseph, behold I die : but God shall be with you, and 
bring you again unto the land of your fathers. And Ja~ 
cob called unto his sons, and said, gather yourselves to- 
gether, that I may tell you that which shall hefal you in the 
last days \ chap. xl. 33. And when Jacob made an end of 
commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet in the bed, 
and yielded up the ghost. — And Joseph went to bury his 
father, and with him the servants of Pharaoh, and the house 
of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house, and a 
very great company ; so they carried the body of Jacob 
from Goshen to Canaan. And after Joseph's return into 
Egypt, fromtheburial of hisfather; chap. 1.16. hisbrethren 
fearing that Joseph would requite them for the evil they 
did unto him, they sent a messenger unto Joseph, say- 
ing, thy father did command before he died, saying, so 
shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the 
trespass of thy brethren, and their sin ; for they did unto 
thee evil : and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass 
of.the servants of the God of thy father. A.nd Joseph 
wept ; — and his brethren fell down before his face ; and 
they said, Behold, we be thy servants. And Joseph said 
unto them, fear not: for am I in the place of God ? But 
as for you, ye thought evil against me ; but God meant 
it unto good, to bring to pass, as at this da)", to save 
much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not : I will 
nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, 
and spake kindly unto them. — \nd Joseph dwelt in 
Egypt, he and his father's house: and Joseph lived an 



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hundred and ten years. — So Joseph died, and all his 
brethren, and all that generation.— And the children of 
Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly and multi- 
plied, and waxed exceeding mighty ; and the land was 
iilled with them. 

These chapters, beginning at the xxviii, with the 
dream of Jacob's ladder, I do most seriously recommend 
to be read through ; as I have only brought together the 
leading particulars in a very short compass, trusting that 
the readers will refer to each chapter, that they may 
never forget what events have taken place, that were re- 
vealed by Dreams; and what is takingplace at this day; 
and how the Lord promised to make known bis will in this 
manner, as in Numb. xii-^-And the Lord came down in the 
pillar of a cloud — and called Aaron and Miriam ; and he 
said, hear my words : If tbere be a prophet among you, 
I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, 
and will speak unto him in a dream. Again in Judges 
xiii — The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the 
Lord ; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the 
Philistines forty years. — And the angel of the Lord 
appeared to the wife of Manoah, who was barren, and be 
was told she should conceive and bear a son, who should 
begin to deliver Israel from the Philistines, whose name 
was Sampson. — There are a variety of other parts of the 
Bible, where the Lord appeared in a dream. — To Solo- 
mon, and also to others ; particularly in Daniel vii. 13. — 
(i I saw in the night visions, and behold one like the 
Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came 
to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near be- 
fore him, and there was given him dominion and glory, and 
a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should 
serve him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which 
shall not be destroyed." Many dreams and visions are 



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in Daniel, which are needless here to add. I now feel 
it a duty to mention a few passages from the New Testa- 
ment, wherein it is clearly and most decidedly proved, 
that the foundation of every Christian Church in 
the World rests on dreams and visions, and also in the 
belief of angels.;— and without the belief of these, they 
hold no higher rank amongst the human race than 
Savages and Hottentots, whom they affect so much to 
pity for their ignorance and darkness. 

I shall begin with the birth of Jesus Christ: in 
Malt, i. when as his mother Mary was espoused to 
Joseph, before they came together, she was found with 
child of the Holy Ghost. — and while he (Joseph) thought 
on these things, behold the angel of the Lord appeared 
unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of 
Pavid, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife : for 
that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost;' — 
and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his 
name JESUS : for he shall save his people from their sins. 
Then. Joseph being raised from sleep didas the angel of the 
Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife: and 
knew her nottW] she had brought forth her first-born son, 
and he called his name Jesus. — Here we find the con- 
ception of the Virgin, and also the office of Christ, the 
Saviour and Redeemer of the World, declared by an an- 
av.L in a dream. And in chap. ii. we read of the wise 
men who had seen his star, and came from the East to 
worship: — and Herod the .king was troubled and all Jeru- 
%alem\ and he gathered the chief priests and scribes of 
the people together, to know from them where Christ 
should be born. And they told him, in Bethlehem, as writ- 
ten by the prophet Micah v. 2. And Herod privily en- 
quired of the wise men, what time the star appeared, 
Hid sent them to Bethlehem to find the young child, and 



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bring him word, that he also might go to worship the 
child; but whose intention was to destroy it; for after 
the wise men saw the child, and made their offerings, in 
verse 12, they were warned of God, in a dream, not 
to return to Herod. And after they were departed, be- 
hold the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a 
dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his 
mother, and flee into Egypt ; and be thou there until 
I bring thee word : for Herod will seek the young child's 
life to destroy him. 

Here I shall put a question: Why should Herod, the 
chief priests, the scribes, and all the people, be alarmed 
at the birth of an infant, that in itself had no power to 
hurt any, or do the least harm whatever ? The answer 
is, it was a birth out of the course of nature, and was 
foretold by the prophet ; the infernal powers were alarmed 
at this wonderful birth ; Satan knew who it was ; and 
this alarm was infused into the minds of the people; for 
all Jerusalem were frightened at a Babe ! But the scribes 
and chief priests told Herod of this birth, from the words 
of the prophet Micah, which concluded with these words 
—"That shall rule the people. 1 '' It is here worthy of a 
remark, that as Herod, and all Jerusalem, both great and 
Small, should be alarmed at the birth of this child, it 
must be a strong proof of the divinity of Christ, as well 
by the conduct qnd fear of the Jews after, even until his 
death upon the cross ; and which leads me to the first 
verse: Mary was espoused to Joseph, before tih;\ 
came together. See. The custom of the Jews was, that 
a contract was made, by which the women were con- 
sidered as the wives of their intended husbands, although 
the marriage had not been confummated. The usual 
time from the contract was six months, before the ac- 
tual consummation; and if during that time, the in- 
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stoned to death ; but if the bridegroom did not insist on 
so rigorous a punishment, he had it in his power to dis- 
claim all intercourse with her; and she was considered 
as infamous, and abandoned to the hardships of life. But 
Joseph, her husband, beinga just man, and not willing 
to make her a public example^ was minded to put her 
away privily : Matt. i. 19. Thus the conception 
of the Virgin Mary was not more marvellous than when 
the breath of the Almighty at first made man a living 
soul ; both were equally incomprehensible to natural 
•wisdom-, for/ in Luke i. 85, the angel said unto the Vir- 
gin, — "The HolY- Ghost shall come upon thee, and the 
power of the Highest shall overshadow thee : therefore 
also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be 
called the Son of God/' And in the next verse, the sign 
was given to Mary of what the power of God could do : 
— (i And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, she hath also 
conceived a son in her old age : and this is the sixth 
month with her who is called barren. ** Now to return 
to the sixteenth verse: He (Joseph) arose and took 
the young child and his mother by night, and departed 
into Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod ; 
and the angel of the Lord again appeared in a dream to 
Joseph in Egypt, for him to arise and take the young 
child and his mother, to return to the land of Israel. 
During this time, Herod finding himself mocked by the 
wise men, who had before been warned in a dream not 
to return to tell him where the child was, ordered all the 
children under two years old to be slain, that were in 
Bethlehem and in all the coasts. 

Here we may bring to our view, what a monster the 
devil can make of a man! I shall now proceed to the 
visitation of the Virgin Mary ; but first to the birth of 
John the Baptist, who was the son of Elizabeth, the wife 
of Zacharias a priest ; they were both well stricken in 



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years, and Elizabeth was until then barren, * Whilst 
Zacharias was executing the priest's office before God, in 
the order of his course, there appeared unto him the 
Angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the 
altar of incense, and said unto him, fear not, Zacharias; 
ver. 13, for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth 
shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John, 
&c. and in ver. 18, Zacharias said unto the angel, I am 
an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. And 
the Angel answering said, I am Gabriel, that stand 
in the presence of God, &c. And after those days his 
wife Elizabeth conceived and hid herself five months; 
and in the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent from 
God into a city of Galilee named Nazareth, to a virgin 
espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house 
of David: and, in ver. 28, the angel said, Hail highly fa- 
voured, the Lord is with thee : blessed art thou among 
women. And when she saw him, she was troubled at 
his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of saluta- 
tion this should be. And the angel said unto her, fear 
not, Mary : for thou hast found favour with God ; and 
behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring fcrth 
a son, and shall call his name JESUS. He shall be great, 
and shall be called the Son of the Highest : and the Lord 
God shall give unto him the throne of his Father David : 
and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever ; 
and of his Kingdom there shall be no end. Here I 
must not only request the reading of this chapter, but 
also to reflect on the different visitations of past ages, 
which I have brought together, in as short a space as 
possible — of Jacob's ladder, when the Lo.rd stood above 

* We should call to our minds Abraham and Sarah; and also the 
wife of Mauoah, the mother of Sampson, who was barren. These 
things standing as shadows in past ages shew Almighty Power. 

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it — what happened after by Joseph and his brethren — and 
to compare also Daniel's night vision s, of what will be 
the END ; of the Ancient of Days, whose dominion shall 
not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be 
destroyed. Now let the reader reflect, deeply reflect too, 
as to the number of years that passed away, from the 
time of Abraham to the birth of Christ, a space of 
2000 years ; it was 1760 years before the birth of Christ, 
that Jacob had this dream ; and 125 years from Jacob's 
dteam until the death of Joseph ; and 64 years from the 
death of Joseph and all his generations, Moses was born, 
when the succeeding Pharaoh ordered all the male child- 
ren of the Hebrews to be put to death, which we may 
compare with the fury of Herod upon the innocent 
children, that the Son of God might be destroyed. Had 
the infernal powers, by artfully working in Pharaoh, suc- 
ceeded in destroying the male children of the Hebrews 
at their birth, the whole race of Israel, to whom the 
tromises were made, would have been lost ; and the fe- 
male children, by being mixed with the Egyptians, the 
descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, could no Jong- 
er' have been a peculiar and chosen people. In these 
events may be clearly seen the workings of the powers of 
evil, to destroy all that was good ; and here also we may 
call to our serious attention, the great deliverance of the 
children of Israel under Moses, and the destruction of 
Pharaoh's host, so clearly described in Joanna's writings, to 
beaType of the destruction of the Power of SJTANix the 
end; and Daniel's visions of the end were shewn to him 
555 yearsbefore the birth of Christ! Can any man, whether 
philosopher or atheist, if he has a heart to reflect at all, sup- 
pose that all these events can be inventions ? or that they 
are not true ? I am only surpr" ' when all is considered 
together, that there should be Fou id a man in the world* 
having the use of his senses, wiio can have any doubt ; 



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y-et there is scarcely faith to be found ! For what purpose, 
or to what profit, according to the selfish mode of reason- 
ing of the present day, could it be to the apostles and 
disciples of Christ to believe, and testify their belief to 
the world? their gain was torment, destruction, and 
death ; and the evil has been destroying and pursuing 
the good to this day, the same as Pharaoh pursued the 
children of Israel, and as Herod destroyed the innocent 
children, by oppression and by blood !-— But as there are 
men who will say, that all these things are inventions* 
how could all the parts so systematically agree with each 
other, at such distant periods of time, and by people who 
never saw each other, living at remote ages ? — Here I will 
leave the reader to ponder upon the whole, and judge for 
himself; for it is his particular duty to know the truth' 
that the devil may be known in all his monstrous forms* 
and what he has made of man, who was created to bear 
the image and likeness of his God, according to these 
lines in Joanna's Fourth Book, page 147 : 

Out of the dust I made at first 

My perfect Image there ; 
I breathed in him, it then was seen, 

My Spirit bright and fair. 

Head this whole Communication, and then see what 
Spirit has been in man after his fall ! If we read the life 
of our Saviour, we may trace the invisible power of hell 
over the human mind, by the alarm stirred up, not 
only at his divine birth, but also the extreme 
cruelty and envy of the Jews ; for Pilate even knew that 
they delivered him for envy ; Matt, xxvii. 16. for when he 
asked the Jews whom he should release, Barabbas or 
Jesus, the Jews chose a murderer to be released, instead 
pi innocence ; fox Barabbas had committed a murder in a 

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sedition. When Pilate saw he could prevail nothing, 
but rather a tumult was made, he took water and washed 
his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent 
of the blood of this just person : See ye to it. Then 
answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, 
and on our children*. 

I shall here add the nineteenth verse, as to Pilate's wife* 
" When Pilate was set down on the judgment seat, his 
wife sent unto him, saying, have thou nothing to do with 
that Just Man; for I have suffered many things this 
day in a Due am, because of turn/' — -As every one must 
know, by the crimes of men in'every age, that the whole 
world must be under infernal influences: what man, con- 
ceived in sin/ can do all this away ? who can redeem the 
world, if the Creator is not to be its Redeemer? 

I have taken a wider and a more extensive range than 
I expected, when I first began this book; as I only in- 
tended to have given an answer to the mockery of the 

* At the end of the Index to the Bible are these words: — " This 
3*ear Jerusalem (according to Christ's Prophecy) is besieged, taken, 
sackt, and burnt, byiTitus; 1,100,000 of Jews perished, 97,000 are 
taken prisoners; besides an innumerable company that in other places 
of Judea kill themselves, or perish through famine, banishment, and 
other miseries." These events took place 37 years after Christ de- 
livered these words in Luke xix. " When he was come near, he be- 
held the city, and wept over it, saying, — if thou hadst known, even 
thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! 
but now they are hid from thine eyes; for the days shall come upon 
thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass 
thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even 
with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not 
leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knowest not the 
time of thy visitation." The Jews have been travelling vagabonds in 
every nation, and are living proofs of the truth of prophecy ; no 
sooner are our eyes opened in the morning from sleep, but their cnes 
arc sounded in our ears, while they are parading our streets to pur- 
chase our ragged and worn-out garments. 



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world, for publishing of the Parables from Joanna, when 
she was at Bristol in 1804; but reflecting on the denial of 
every thing supernatural, I conceived it necessary to 
make other observations, to shew to what an alarming ex- 
tent infidelity is increased ; and in what a variety of forms 
falsehood and hypocrisy are gone forth ; all of which 
prove that these are the latter days. Not only the reality 
of a devil is universally denied; but the divinity of Jesus 
Christ is openly attacked ; yet he is considered as an ob- 
ject of worship, because he was a better man than ether?. 
Here it is allowed he had a purity of character above every 
other man ; — yet by denying the divinity of his birth, they 
make him an impostor, and his mother a degraded woman, 
whom the a^gcl said was blessed among women. A per- 
son of such purity and innocence of character, (which they 
are obliged to confess he was ) would not have suffered 
himself to be called the Son of God, if he were not, and 
begotten only like every other man. He would not have 
said, as in Johnx. 30. " I and my Father are One;'* 
and in John viii. IS. he said, I am one that bear wit- 
ness of myself ; " for if he was only as another man 
he would have had other witnesses, like every other man; 
— and again, when the Jews said to him, John viii. 4. 
— " We were not born of fornication ; we have one 
Father, even God."—- Mark his reply :— " If God were 
your Father, ye would love me; for I proceeded forth, 
and came from God."—- and in verse 43, he said, " Why 
do ye not understand my speech; even because ye can. 
not hear my word : — U Ye are of your father, the devil, 
and the lusts of your father ye will do: he was a mur- 
derer from the beginning ; and abode not in the truth, 
because there is no truth in him : when he speaketh a 
lie, he speaketh of his own ; for he is a liar, and the fa- 
ther of it i'* verse 45— u and because I tell you the truth* 
ye believe me not." No person but a good and upright 



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man, which they declare him to be, could have uttered 
such bold words ; and at the same 'time to be an impos- 
tor, then he must have been as bad as the father of lies, 
if not worse. — Therefore those who deny his divinity, 
cannot understand his speech, and they must be under 
their father the devil, and clothed with the garments of 
hypocrisy and deceit, in their pretended worship ; 
neither will these men believe or understand these words, 
in ver. 38, u I speak that which I have seen with my 
Father ;■ and to these men the concluding words may 
be applied ; C( And ye do that which ye have seen with 
your father," [meaning the devil). I shall now call the 
reader's attention to Matt. iii. 16.— "And Jesus, when 
he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water : 
and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw 
the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting 
upon him : and, lo, a voice from heaven, saying, This 
is my beloved Son, in whom I am w r ell pleased." How 
could these words come from the God of heaven, and the 
Spirit lighting upon him like a dove, if he were not the Son 
of God ? I need add no other observations to this. Let 
those who deny the divinity of the Son of God, and yet 
preach from his w T ords make theirs;— but I truftand hope 
that the reader will not fail to read these chapters and 
judge for himself. Although these men, or any other 
men, cannot deny the spotless innocence of Christ ; yet, 
their sincerity is by no means like that of Pilate, who 
washed his hands before the multitude, saying, " I am 
innocent of the blood of this J ust person." But these 
men rob Christ of every thing except the letters of hi§ 
name; and it must be well known that they are com- 
pelled to make use of that name, if it were only to 
cheat with; — indeed they cannot cheat without it; for 
no congregation could they collect together, in a country 
professing Christianity, without the name of Jesus Christ, 



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and a pretended belief in him. It is by the use of his 
name alone that they can preach at all ; and when men 
take so much pains to do away the essence of divine truth 
] can have no hesitation to doubt their sincerity, and con- 
sider them no more than a race of impostors; and the 
same character may be applied to all who deny the truth 
of dreams, and visions, and angels appearing at sundry 
times. — To take away the belief in these, the foundation 
is gone^ and the superstructure must vanish away as a 
phantom of the' brain. But there is a chain of evidence 
composed of a variety of parts, or links, from the be- 
ginning of Genesis to the end of the Revelation ; and 
the greatest events have been produced by dreams, and 
the visitation of angels in dreams, and their appearing 
personally as men : and every church in the world, having 
the name of Christ, must believe the whole, or their 
church and their livings must fall and perish together : 
so must every individual professing Christianity ; and 
those who deny these, and also deny Christ's being 
the Son of God, they are only thieves and robbers. 
To believe in a part only, as fancy directs, will not do; for 
the chain cannot be broken that unites the whole to- 
gether as ONE. 

The Bible cannot be understood without these and a 
knowledge of types and shadows, as they are explained in 
Joanna's writings : — and the visitation to her is not only 
the same as were those to the prophets, but in her are 
fulfilled the words in John iii. 8. — Here is the won- 
der as mentioned in Revelation xii ; and these things 
could never be explained to man, unless the seals were 
unloosed, as mentioned in the Revelation, and some one 
had been found worthy to unloose the seais. Jesus 
Christ, who is described as the Lion of the Tribe of 
Judah, and who was the Lamb that was slain, is the only 
one, and who, as mentioned in chap. v. has redeemed us 



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to God by his blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, 
and people, and nation. What'lias been sealed up in the 
bosom of the Father is now revealed through the Woman 
elotrred with the Sun — the day of redemption being now 
at hand. — 

I will now introduce the words of the Spirit of Jesus, 

ON PARABLES*. 



FROM THE SPIRIT. 

'* NOW come to the Flock of Sheep : for I 
now tell thee, these two books, that I ordered to be 
printed in this manner, that you could not under- 
stand one without going to the other, as some of thy 
life is placed in one, and some in the other, so that 
they both must be compared together ; perfectly so 
stand the Law and the Gospel, which I shall bring 
together to compare with thy Books. And know 
what I have told thee, from the Flock of Sheep ; 
I have compared the murderer to the devil, whose 
Subtle arts lay in wait to destroy mankind; and so 
I tell thee, he laid in wait to destroy Noah and his 
sons, as he hath laid in wait for all ages, to break 
off the happiness and union in man. Yet these 
footsteps are not discerned by mankind, how he 
goes on; that it was not the judgments of the de- 
luge, or the world's being drowned, nor the love I 
shewed Noah, nor the love and faith he shewed to 
me, put a stop to the progress of sin and misery : 
no ; I tell thee, like the Flock of Sheep breaking 
out against the murderer at the place where he com- 
mitted the murder ; and that Was the way he received 
his punishment, to suffer for the crime he had com- 

* The continuation of the explanation of these Parables the reader 
will and in Mr. Foley's Book, beginning in page bL 



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mitted, for a crime he had not committed ; because 
the innocent sheep broke out at the same place in 
judgment against him. Now perfectly so in like 
manner I have brought round the mystery of the 
Fall, and the promise that was made ; Satan was 
not cast and chained for the crime he then com- 
mitted, neither understood they the promise; and 
ages have run on the same ; they never discerned 
the promise that was ??iade, neither discerned they 
it must be pleaded, till I came to visit thee : and 
here the innocent sheep appear, which, I tell thee, 
he cannot shun ; because I have set bounds for him, 
as I set at first for man ; and thy innocence he can- 
not betray, by all the arts he can invent. And now 
come to the Gospel, where the murder was com- 
mitted, to have the Flock of Sheep appear : See my 
Heel how it was bruised ! Here the serpent stands 
guilty to work in man to complete the murder, to 
have my Heel bruised at first, that his Head 
may be bruised at last ; fori now tell thee, in these 
Parables, and the perfect manner I have worked 
in thee, stands the likeness of my Bible through ; 
therefore, I tell thee, now the time is come for 
vengeance to fall on the serpent's head; and no 
more can he escape than the murderer escaped his 
just judgments, though concealed from every eye, 
before it was brought to light by the Flock of Sheep: 
and yet I tell them, as by the Flock of Sheep, per- 
fectly so are the mysteries of the Fall ; they were 
concealed from every eye, to understand the mean- 
ing, before the Truth was brought to light by 
thee ; and yet I tell them, not by thee ; because the 
whole was revealed by me. Can men suppose 
the Flock of Sheep would in that manner have turn- 
ed every way to baulk both horse and rider, if I had 
sent no invisible beings, of spirits or angels, 
that had power over the sheep ? I tell thee, no ; 
the sheep would not have done it themselves, 

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without their being turned by my command, as 
Balaam's ass was turned, by the angel's standing in 
the way, unperceived by the rider ; and perfectly 
so, I tell thee, were the sheep turned by my com- 
mand ; and perfectly so, I tell thee, by an invisible 
Spirit came all this revelation to thee, to bring 
round every mystery, and to turn the whole every 
way, to bring to light the dark councils that were 
hid from man. And so I tell thee, from these two 
Books, I have shewed thee they allude to the Law 
and the Gospel; that meaneth, to the prophets,, 
and my decrees made from the beginning, which 
are my Law and the Gospel, I have told thee must 
join together ; which I am explaining from the sim- 
ple shadow of the two Books that were placed in 
order by me ; for I gave the command how they 
should be placed ; and I have plainly shewn thee 
from the one *, how thy book begins of the likeness 
of Eve in innocence, in temptations, and in the fear 
of falling, as Eve was in when she did fall. Thus I 
have shewed thee the likeness of the one ; and from 
the Parable of the Sheep, I shall shew thee the other, 
which I shall prove from men and devils. See how 
Herod sought my life, and slew the children to slay 
me ; see how Satan worked in man to go on, till 
my death appeared', and yet, thou seest (like the 
man) how he still goes on in disguise from men, 
that he is their murderer ; before I come to warn by 
my Spirit to bring the Law and Gosfel together, 
which I have told thee means the Promise made in 
the Fall, and for which my Heel was bruised to 
fulfil. And now I will tell thee how my sheep must 
stand ; perfectly like thy two Books, that one part 
of thy life is in one, and the other part is in the 
other, so that you must go through them both to 

* Head the fust pages of Mr. Foley's Book, " What manner of 
Communications are these," which Book represents the Lav.' and 
Prophets. 



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bring thy life together ; now perfectly so, I tell thee, 
men must place my Bible — the promise that was 
made in the beginning — the promise that was made 
in the Psalms, for me to have the Heathens for 
mine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth 
for my possession* — for my enemies to be made my 
footstool*}" — for the government to be upon my 
shoulders J — for the ends of the earth to see my sal- 
vation§ — for my Spirit to be poured out upon all 
flesh || — and all the earth to be taught of the Lord**. 
Then where is Satan's power, when the prince of 
this world is judged and destroyed-f-f-, and the Lamb 
of God is taking away the sins of the world^j*, to 
destroy him that hath the power of death, which is 
the devil §§, that he is overcome by the blood of 
the Lamb || || ? Now I tell thee, perfectly like the two 
Books, thy history being broken off in one, - and 
being put in another, so that you must join them 
both together, perfectly so, I tell thee, stand the 
Scriptures of Truth ! for both books of the Bible, the 
Old Testament and the New, stand in regular order 
to prove to mankind the promise must be fulfilled, 
and the kingdom restored to man as it was designed 
before the Creation, and before the foundation 
was laid. And now I shall tell thee, why I ordered 
thee to put in print thy whole history, and the 
history of thy father ; because I tell thee, perfectly 
as thy father's conduct appeared to thee, to wound 
and grieve thy heart, and then to grieve himself, 
that he had grieved a child he loved***, perfectly so f 

I tell thee, is my feeling for man ; for no more than 
thy father could refrain his passions, when the powers 
of darkness worked them high, no more can I avoid 
often grieving and wounding the hearts of my chil- 

* Psalm ii. 8. f Pfalm cx.l. % Isaiah ix. 6. § Isaiah xlix. 6. 

II Joel ii 28. ** Isaiah liv. IS. it John xvi. II. %% John 
V 29. %Hplrew»il 14. |||| Revelations ii. 1 1. 

*** See page 12. — Flock of Sheep. 

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dren whom I love, while Satan is daily accusing 
them, as he did Jo? ; they would not serve me if 
they were afflicted, is Satan s upbraiding in all ages ; 
therefore, I tell thee, I do not willingly grieve and 
afflict the children of men, that look unto me as 
their Father and Protector ; and yet, like thy father, 
I often grieve them by afflictions, while the devil 
is busy to condemn them ; therefore, I tell thee, 
he must he destroyed, before your Peace can flow as 
a river; and I must take out' of my Kingdom 
all that ofFend, all that wound and grieve my 
children ; for these are my promises through the 
records of my Bible, which may be as easily dis- 
cerned, if you weigh the whole together, as thy 
life can be discerned, if you weigh the two books 
together. Here I have shewn thee, why I or- 
dered thy life in print, and to be put in two 
books, to bring them both together. Now I shall 
come to the Parables, that I ordered thee to place 
in both books ; know I have told thee, the Flock of 
Sheep is compared to my Gospel, and with my 
Gospel I shall compare the Parables that are placed 
in this book. And now come first to the Parables 
that are in my Gospel : Matt. xiii. 3. " A sower 
went out to sow his seed." Here I began in parables 
to my disciples, and to all men : Now mark the 
words of my disciples — " Why speakest thou unto 
them in parables ? " Know my answer :" " It is 
given unto you, to know the mysteries of the King- 
dom of Heaven ; but to them it is not given." Now 
mark the parables through the chapter, and to what 
parables I likened the Kingdom of Heaven. It was 
likened unto a leaven, which a woman took and hid 
in three measures of meal, till the whole was 
leavened. Now mark this parable with the other, 
chap. xxii. 2 ver. — " The Kingdom of Heaven is like 
unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his 
son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were 



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bidden to the wedding : and they would not come.'* 
chap. xxy. " The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto 
ten virgins, which took their lamps and went forth 
to meet the bridegroom." Now I tell thee from 
these parables, if they discern to what I likened the 
Kingdom of Heaven — to the marriage of the king's 
son, and to the woman's having the little leaven, 
they must know and discern, this is a spiritual 
union that must take place with God and Man : 
and to bring the likeness of the king's son, the 
shadow must begin with the woman. And here 
bring the parable of the child that is born poor, and 
mean for the noble knight*. Now I tell thee, from 
this parable, it appeareth to the grand world that 
boast of wisdom and learning, knowledge and un- 
derstanding, as much to be despised by them to 
think that a simple woman, without learning, birth, 
or blood, as the rich and great so much boast of, 
should be born as an Heir to claim the promise ; and 
that mysteries should be revealed to her ! This, I tell 
thee, is as much despised by man, as the child was 
despised by the knight ; and yet I tell thee, to make 
my parables true, and to make the Law and Gospel 
join, as thy history joins in the two books, that is 
not completed in one, perfectly so, I tell thee, the 
likeness of this parable must be fulfilled ; and the 
spiritual union of the marriage must begin with the 
woman to bring the Kingdom to what I likened 
it to ; therefore I tell thee, however simple these 
parables may appear to an unbelieving world, yet 
to believers it is given to know the mystery, that 
perfectly like the child in the womb of providence, 
all these things were decreed, which neither men 
nor devils can overturn ; for as the woman was hid 
at different times to save her life, to be preserved 
to the end, and fulfil the decrees; perfectly so, 
I tell thee, it has been by the woman, in the womb 

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of Providence; she was made for man's good ; but as 
Satan sought her life, to destroy her, I was born of 
the woman, to be man's helpmate for her ; that 
meanetb, that I might be a helpmate for man's 
good, that w r as born of the woman ; and they sought 
my life to destroy it. So here is the second time 
it hath been hid from man, of the mystery of the 
Creation, when I made the woman. But now I am 
come in the Spirit to unveil the mystery, and clear 
the whole. For I now tell thee, as thy writings 
have been hid. and t-wice cut open, and proved by 
-man*, and yet as the promise that was made is not 
fulfilled, they must wait till the third time, that 
thy trial cometh by Friends and Foes. Perfect- 
ly so, I tell thee, stands the mystery of the Gos- 
pel, that men do not understand ; and yet if they 
discern the parable deep, and what was the end, 
they could discern plainly, the woman was created 
to make man perfect in happiness, as the child in 
the end made the knight ; but as the child's life 
could not be preserved, if kind Providence had not 
interfered^ and the powers of heaven protected the 
child ; perfectly so, I now tell thee, without kind 
Providence, and the interference of heaven, the wo- 
man can never be preserved and restored to that 
state of happiness and innocence, she was created 
for. And now to come to this happiness, you must 
come to the other parable *f~, where the courage of 
the lady ventured her life to find out the murderer 
she was jealous of; and yet I tell thee, this could 
not be done, for her to have that faith and courage, 
wisdom and prudence, to bring the truth to light, 
without a kind Providence interfering in her behalf. 
So you must discern from the parable, she was pro- 

* The Box of sealed writings and the sealed parcels were opened at 
the Trial at High [louse, Paadiugton, in January, 1803; and again 
at the second Trial, at Neckinger House, Bermondsey, in December, 
1804. 

t See page 70, 71, Fleck of Sheep. 



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tected by heaven, or she could not have brought the 
murder to light in that manner, and save her own 
life. Now from this parable stands Satan s end\ for 
this is what I said in my Gospel, John xii. 31 ; I 
said — Now was the judgment of this world ; that 
meaneth, the judgment they then passed on me ; 
but mark the words that follow : Now shall the 
prince of this world be cast out \ Now mark my 
words further : chap, xvi — Of judgment, because 
the prince of this world is judged ; and mark farther, 
what I said to my disciples : I have many things to 
to say unto you ; but ye cannot bear them now ; 
howbeit, when the Spirit of Truth is come, he 
shall guide you into all truth. Now I tell thee 
from these words, how could the disciples bear to 
go through all their sufferings, if I had told them 
©f the end, and the perfect mystery of rny death, 
with the reason why my heel was bruised ? For the 
victory could not come by man, to have the prince 
of this world cast out ; to have him judged by the 
transgression of man ; as man never cast it on him. 
No : it must be by the woman, whom he betrayed, 
to claim the tromise, where it was made, that he 
might he judged for all the evils that he had done from 
the creation, ever since he betrayed the woman. But 
had these things been explained to the disciples, I 
ask thee how they could have borne them ? but now 
mark from the Spirit of Truth when he comes, he 
shall guide you into all Truth. Now I ask thee, 
what men make of these words? was not the Spirit 
of Truth in me ? but know I told them, they could 
not bear it then ; but now the Spirit of Truth is 
come to guide, you into every Truth, and bring 
every thing to your remembrance, from the founda- 
tion of the world to this day. And now mark my 
words further ; when they said, blessed is the 
womb that bare thee, and the paps which gave thee 
suck, know my answer ; Yea rather blessed are they 



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that hear and believe my Gospel. Luke xi. 28. 
Now I ask how men understand these words? Do 
they vainly suppose my followers are more blessed, 
or yea rather blessed than my mother ? I tell thee, 
no : and know what was written of her, all genera- 
tions should call her blessed ; and blessed she is call- 
ed ; and blessed, I tell thee, she is : and yet, I tell 
thee, the meaning of my words, though they were 
blessed that believed my Gospel, and the womb was 
blessed that bore me ; yet, I tell thee, rather 
blessed are those, that believe to the fulfilment i 
and they may say blessed are they that believe 
my Gospel, that Idled to fulfil the promise ; for I 
now tell thee, they will be rather blessed that enjoy 
the fulfilment ; because they will not have to go 
through the miseries and evils that others had to go 
through, when the murderer is cast and cut off, 
like the fable, for betraying the woman # . Now 
mark the parable : he was a murderer of women ; 
and by a woman he was found out , and brought to 
justice. Now I tell thee, the parable goeth deep, 
and close with my Bible, if you discern how he was 
betrayed by the very hand he thought to murder ! 
Now perfectly so, I tell thee, is Satan betrayed, as 
the guilt was first cast on his head, by the woman he 
betrayed. And now discern in what manner I have 
ordered to lay my plan, as I laid it first for man, that 
Satan may be judged according to my Gospel, and 
by the trials and temptations that he pursues all with, 
and which plainly prove he is justly cast, as he 
claimed it, (that is death) for man at the first ; there- 
fore, I tell thee, the fable is plain for man to discern 
the end ; and weigh my Gospel with the Revela- 
tion ; and let them mark the twelfth chapter with 
the twentieth, and then they must discern the truth 
of the parable, that I ordered thee to print ; for 
know what I said in my Gospel, that I would liken 

* Sec pages 70 and 71— Flock of Sheep. 



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the Kingdom of Heaven to every likeness of things 
upon earth ; then now discern this parable of the 
woman, (that is the lady), with what agonies of 
sorrow she went through, and what the man 
had in his heart, to be her murderer ! and how 
she brought it round to bring on his destruc- 
tion. Now I tell thee, from this parable, as it is 
placed between the man and the woman, perfectly 
so stands the Revelation, between the serpent and 
the woman ; and know, the man must be first cast, 
to be in prison till the judge cometh ; and perfectly 
so stands the Revelation. Satan is first cast, having 
a little space to come down in wrath, before the 
judge cometh to pass his sentence. So I tell thee, 
these two fables # , that I ordered thee to put in 
print, are a perfect likeness of the Gospel, if men 
can understand what they read, and discern the 
parables that were placed by me at first, and how 
they were ordered to be placed by me at last; for 
in the man and woman, I have placed the likeness, 
if you discern the parable deep, to weigh it with my 
Gospel. 

And now I shall come to another Parable, of the 
Alarming Drum, when the soldiers beat aloud-}*. 
Now I tell thee, from this parable, though you will 
see it come upon many; yet, I tell thee, it is the 
perfect end, when I come to bring in my king- 
dom ;£. And now come to the parable in my Gos- 
pel — What shall the Lord of the Vineyard do when 
he cometh ? He will come and destroy all these hus- 
bandmen, and give the vineyard unto others. So 
I tell thee, from the parable, men and devils both 
may fear ; for the sense is like the other ; because as 
thy parable ends, the innocent was saved, and the 
guilty was cast. 

* Knight and the Lady. 
f See page 76 — Flock of Sheep. % Mark xi.— Luke xx. 9. 

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And now I shall tell thee of another Parable to 
compare with my Gospel, which is the Hermit ikt 
disguise* : and so in disguise I came to my fol- 
lowers, when I arose from the dead, and appeared 
first to the women, and next to my disciples. 
Now I tell thee, from this chapter, [Luke xxiv.) 
mark in what disguise I appeared to my disciples, 
and they knew me not : and now I ttll thee, in the 
Spirit I am come in the same disguise to men ; and 
their eyes are so holden, they do not know me ; and 
yet, I tell them, I shall make myself known amongst 
my disciples, before I take thee out of the world ; and 
yet I appear in disguise to men, expounding to 
them, on the Scriptures, in what manner the whole 
must be fulfilled. Here I have shewed thee I come 
in disguise ; so I ordered thee to pen the fable of the 
Hermit in Disguise ; but know, I told thee, from 
the type of the hermit, what the end would be. 
And now mark from that parable, how it ended well 
with the innocent ; but the guilty met his fate ; and 
perfectly so I told my disciples the end would be, 
when I came in might, majesty and power, to 
welcome my friends into the joy of their Lord. 
Now if thou discernest the parables, that I ordered 
thee to pen, the end brought guilt upon the guilty, 
and the innocent were freed ; perfectly so stands my 
Gospel, that the same end would be to mankind. — 
But now I know thy pondering thoughts : there are 
dreams put in print, that the innocent was murdered, 
and the guilty fled *\*. So here the misery fell upon 
the innocent! Now perfectly so, I tell thee, is the 
Gospel ; the innocent was murdered and the guilty 
lied in the beginning ! Mark my death ! and the 
death of my disciples ! Here is the parable that thou 
hast put in print by my command, standing pcrfect- 



* See page 2C — Flock of SV.ec p. 
t See page 65 — Flock of Sheep. 



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]y like me and my disciples ; and what I told them 
before would take place in me and them. So as the 
two dreams were fulfilled, my words were fulfilled 
in the Gospel : here it fell upon the innocent, while 
the guilty fled. So as these things were accomplished 
in the first, there is every other parable remaining 
for the last; and deep, I tell thee, the parable 
stands, as a type for the end : to shew men clearly 
the truth of my parables ; how, they may hope to 
the end ; how they will be delivered at the end ; 
and how the murderers will be destroyed. There- 
fore, I tell thee, these Books that thou couldest not 
bear, because of the parables, are a clearer and 
deeper sign of the end, than any Books that have 
been printed ; because the parables were commanded 
by me to be put in print*." 

* In page 48 of the book called the Flock of Sheep, there 
is another parable, of the Healing Salve being applied, 
before the corruption is drawn out. This, in thefirst place, 
alludes to the clergy at large, who pretend to heal the 
nation over whilst they continue in their sins and in their 
blood, without searching their wounds to the bottom; 
therefore they pretend to heal the wound that is in man, 
without first drawing out the corruption, that is originally 
from the devil ; so that the root of evil must never be 
drawn out. It may also be applied to all the believers ; 
some of whom have believed themselves more holy than 
their brethren, without discovering the corruption in 
their own hearts ; and who have been reproved, on pur- 
pose that they might be healed, however painful -it must 
be to them. This parable, as respecting the clergy, 
is explained by the Spirit, which the reader will 
see in page 4 9, and is also applied to believers, and is 
a fulfilment of the words in the Gospel — " Whose fan is 
in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor." 
Here are the words of the Spirit. 

t( This bringeth it to thy parable, that I ordered thee 
to pen; (Brown's Healing Salve, and Deem*s Draw- 
ing Salve). So if you weigh them both together, you 

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" Now I shall come to another Parable, that is plac- 
ed in my Gospel, and in thy Book. — But now I know 
thy pondering thoughts : Where in my Gospel can 
I liken what the lady said of the gentleman, that he 
was like an empty bottle # ? And now I will tell thee 
where I have placed it to in my Gospel ; Luke xi. 44. 
— " Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypo- 
crites ! for ye are as graves which appear not, and 
men that walk over them are not aware of them." 
Now I tell thee, from these words, an empty grave, 
that is not discerned, is like an empty bottle, which 
deceives man, if he expects to have wine therein. 
Now perfectly so I tell thee of mankind, scribes, 
Pharisees, and hypocrites have been in every age of 

will see the parable join with my Gospel and with my 
pruning them that are in the vine, if they will bear prun- 
ing ; but if not, I tell thee, like withered branches they 
must be cast out.'' 

Since the foregoing remark was sent to the press, the 
following lines were taken out of Joanna's sealed writ- 
ings, written in 17 96, exactly ten years ago, when 
people then thought their dangers were over, which we 
may apply to the present state of the country •, for, in 
consequence of the death of Mr. Pitt, we have had new 
rulers, some of whom are men of great acquired know- 
legde, and distinguished for integrity of heart. 



* The healing Balsam now is tried ! 

But here the wound lies deep. 
They Blink the dangers all are gone, 

Befoie the v - and seems dried ; 
But soon they'i find they are deceived j 

The wound lie' deep within, 
And when that \\ begins to break, 

They'll find theif Judgment gone; 
For in bound up ; 

And all told not to < 
My Law and GosPfcii's all forgot, — 

Let all men now take care." 



Sec page 69 — Flock of Sheep. 



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the world ; and it was known to me, they would 
continue to the end ; therefore I compared them to 
graves that are empty, and not discerned, that men 
walk over unaware and fall into ; because. I tell 
thee, men do not discern the deceit that is in them- 
selves, as the lady discerned the deceit of the man. 
She soon perceived he was nothing but emptiness, 
and ordered an empty bottle to convince him ; but 
how few have her wisdom, to discern the emptiness 
there is in mankind! They boast of my Bible ; they 
boast of the Gospel ; that they have a knowledge of 
the whole ; but when you come to put them to the 
trial, and ask them what they make of the whole, 
and whether they judge it will be ever fulfilled, I tell 
thee, their wisdom is as empty as the bottle ; for they 
will tell you it must be fulfilled in their wisdom — 
and their voisdom is like the man s for tune, which thou 
knowest was none ; perfectly so I now tell thee, 
there is no wisdom in man to know the way the 
Scriptures will be fulfilled ; and he that boasts he 
hath this knowledge is like the man that would have 
deceived the lady by his appearance, if she had not 
found out the real state of his fortune, that all was 
gone, and he had nothing left. Now perfectly so I 
tell thee the same of mankind ; their wisdom is 
gone ; their knowledge was lost in the beginning', and 
man hath no power of himself, ro help himself; 
neither hath he knowledge to know the end ; there- 
fore I tell thee, men must discern these things, how 
far man's wisdom and understanding are gone f and 
how far their wisdom would lead men astray; as the 
wisdom of the Jews led men from my Gospel, so 
would men's wisdom lead them from my Kingdom. 
Therefore I tell thee, the wisdom of man is perfectly 
like thy parable, and like the parable I brought for- 
ward of the graves, that men walk over, not discern- 
ing the pit they might fall into : for now mark my 



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words further : The light of the body is the eye ; 
therefore ' when thine eye is single thy whole body- 
also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy 
body also is full of darkness. Luke xi. 34. Now I 
shall tell thee the meaning of these words — To have 
your eye single you must have it to the Lord, be- 
lieving all ray Bible will be fulfilled ; that God is a 
God of Truth ; and to that truth your eye must be 
fixed ; then the Scriptures will fill you with light 
to discern what is not fulfilled, and what is to be fuU 
filled, to make the word of the Lord in all things 
come true : but if your eye be evil, like Jezebel's, 
when she saw my wondrous working at the first, 
what I had done by the hand of the prophet, yet her 
evil eye was darkened, not believing, from the mira- 
cles she had seen before, that I had power to save the 
prophet, and bring on her the destruction that I had 
threatened to Ahab's house ; and that I should de- 
stroy her, as I had destroyed her prophets ; this 
her evil eye never discerned before the destruction 
came upon her*. 

ON T THE PARABLE OF LORD BURNET. 

Now I shall answer thy pondering thoughts, at 
the 59th page in the Flock of Sheep. Simple as thy 
thoughts were, in the manner thou judgedst to be 
called aloud, so simple, I tell thee, were the 
thoughts of bel evers, to think they should know the 
powerful visitation or my Spirit, when thy trial was 
at the end of the year : for I now tell thee, there 
were many who expected the promise to be fulfilled, 
of the pouring out of my Spirit, when thy trial was 
at the end of that year, as thou wast in expectation 
to hear my voice call thee aloud; and like thy disap- 

See the continuation in Mr. Foley's Book, from page 67 to 71. 



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pointmcnt was their disappointment. Therefore, I 
tell thee, I ordered these shadows, simple as they 
appear to be, to be printed ; yet, I ordered it so, 
that, from the shadow you may discern the sub- 
stance, how the like disappointment came to Be- 
lievers. Now I tell thee, if men discerned this deep, 
and compared the shadow and substance together, in 
these little things, they would discern my footsteps 
in greater ; for it was to open the eyes of their un- 
derstanding that I permitted these trifling things to 
appear : and let this be discerned by all ; though 
thou wast disappointed every time thou waitedst with 
expectation ; yet know, in a day thou little thought - 
est of, and in an hour unaware, thou heardest thy 
name called aloud. And mark the enquiry thou 
didst make, to know if it was possible to come from 
thy brother's room ; now perfectly so, I tell thee, 
suddenly and unexpectedly will thy calling be, and the 
enquiry be made*. Now 1 tell thee, like the shadow 
will be the substance of the disappointment, and the 

* Now to understand this, it is necessary to say, that 
the time when Joanna expected to be called was on the 
24th of June ; but she was not called till the 1st 
of August, when she heard her name called aloud 
— " Joanna/' — upon which she desired Underwood to 
see if there was any one in her brother's room ; but 
there was no body there ; as that was the only room 
that the voice could come from, had one called in 
the house. Then she desired Underwood to call 
aloud in that room, that she might prove if the voice 
could be heard from thence - ? but it could not ; there- 
fore she knew that she was called by the same voice 
that she had so often been called by, and to her as- 
tonishment at a time that she did not expect ; for she 
was surprised at it, as she had passed the time she 
expected to be called, and did not then think she should 
be called till the three months were up. 



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sudden surprise*. And now I shall answer thy 
pondering thoughts upon the letters that were sent 
to Foley and Sharp-f~; as thou hast been pondering in 
thy heart to what purpose were the letters sent, so near 
alike each other, to be put in print ; for thou canst 
see no meaning in either. But now I shall answer 
thee., why this was done : as I have told thee, from 
those two books, I shall bring them to the Law and 
the Gospel ; now mark John xii. 30, 31 — "This 
voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 
Now is the judgment of this world : now shall the 
prince of this world be cast out." Chap. xvi. 11, 
— u Of judgment, because the prince of this world is 
judged." Here I have shewed thee from the Gospel, 
and now I shall come to the prophets : Isaiah xxv. 7, 
8 — " He will destroy in this mountain the face of the 
covering cast over all people, and the veil that is 
spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in 
victory, and the Lord God will wipe away tears from 
off all faces, and the rebuke of his people shall be 
taken away from off all the earth : for the Lord hath 
spoken it. And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this 
is our God, we have waited for him." Isaiah xliv. 8 
— " Fear ye not, neither be afraid : have not I told 
thee from that time, and have declared it ? ye are 
even my witnesses." Now I shall answer thee from 
these words ; as thy letter stands in both books, se- 
parated, one part in one, and the other part in the 
other ; yet perfectly to one sense and meaning they 
both are of one thing; and perfectly so, I tell thee, 
stand the words of the Prophets and the Gospel. 
And now mark the words before ; yer. (3 — " Thus 
laith the Lord, the King of Israel, and his Redeem- 

* Sec Flock of Sheep, page 59- 
t The 26th June, 1804, 87th page in Mj\ 'Foley % and 28th page in 
A .1r. Shai p's book, 



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er, the Lord of host ; I am the first, and I am the 
last, and besides me there is no God." Now I ask 
what thou understandest from these words, any more 
than thou understandest from thy books ? In thy 
heart thou answerest, thou dost not understand them. 
Now I answer thee : perfectly as thy two letters might 
be joined together as one, perfectly so, I tell thee, 
stand the words before thee: the Lord the King of 
Israel, and his Redeemer, I tell thee, are united as 
one, though it appeareth to man, from the Gospel, 
that they are separated, like thy letters ; and yet it 
is known to thee, they were only divided by one be- 
ing sent to one, and another being sent to another ; 
and many words in both are alike ; now perfectly so, 
I tell thee, stands the Gospel — appearing as a se- 
paration to man, that the Lord and the Redeemer was 
divided, by my taking man's nature upon me, and 
condescended to be born of a woman. Here stands 
the separation that stumbleth the Jews ; because it is 
written, I am God, I know not any, and besides 
me there is no God. Now I tell thee, from these 
words, the Jews will never be convinced, until they 
discern the separation — that all came from the be- 
ginning from one Head, as thy letters are in one 
sense, though parted into two separate books. Now 
perfectly so, I tell thee, stand the Law and the Gos- 
pel : there is no earthly God, man can set up ; there 
is no Image, man can set up ; neither is there any 
Man that can be set up by man, to be a God, but 
only the Creator of the Universe, who dwelleth in 
the heavens above, and amongst the habitations of 
the earth below. But this men do not discern, the 
meaning of the words that were spoken in the creation, 
when the Creator of the world said, Let us make 
man in our likeness. Now I tell thee, if men discerned 
deeply the words that were spoken at first, they would 
discern to whom I spoke — that there was a Unity in 

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Heaven of some One I compared with myself. Here 
I have shewed thee from xht first words in the crea- 
tion, concerning making man ; secondly from the 
Fall, after the man had cast his blame upon his Crea- 
tor, for giving him the woman ; and I pronounced 
the curse on the serpent for betraying the woman. 
Mark the words that I said: He shall bruise thy head, 
and thou shalt bruise his heel. Now whose heel do 
men vainly suppose I said he should bruise, but the 
Lord's, where the man cast the blame ? Now I tell 
thee, as the unity was together in the words let us ; 
so I tell thee, the blame was cast on the US that was 
united together as one. These things I am speaking 
for the sake of the Jews, to open their blind eyes ; 
because it is written — there is but one God, they 
cannot believe, from that God, there can come a 
Holy One to be a Redeemer, to fulfil the words 
spoken in the creation ; for I tell thee, there are thou- 
sands who marvel as much at the Law and the Gospel, 
how they can be divided and joined together, as thou 
hast marvelled at thy two books, how they are divided'; 
and yet thou sayest they are joined as one, the same 
thing printed over again. Perfectly so, I tell thee, I 
and my Father were ONE, one in substance from 
the beginning; one in heart and spirit united ! So I 
tell thee, there was but one God for the Jews to wor- 
ship ; and they knew of no other ; neither taught I 
them another; neither taught I in my Gospel of any 
other God for men to worship ; but plainly told them 
I and my Father were ONE; and that I was from 
the beginning — I come from the Father — I go to 
the Father — is what I taught my disciples — and mark 
in what manner I taught them to pray. So if men 
discern my Gospel, they must discern my coming in 
the Flesh, to suffer for the transgression of man ; and 
to have my heel bruised, which was a separation from 
the Father, to take maris nature upon me, as thine 
was a separation in the two letter? ; and yet one in 



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substance. And now I ask thee, who do men suppose 
came to Moses in the Bush ? or on Mount Sinai ? or 
who so often visited Moses ? I know the thoughts of 
thy heart ; and to thy thoughts I shall answer ; they 
both were as ONE; but the separation came by taking 
man's nature upon me : but, I tell thee, in Spirit 
it was ONE ; and by the same Hand, the same 
Power, and the same Spirit, that Moses's miracles 
were wrought, I wrought all the miracles in the 
Gospel : but, I tell thee, to fulfil the one I must 
suffer the other. Therefore I tell thee, thousands 
and tens of thousands, besides the Jews, are stum- 
bled concerning the Gospel ; as they cannot look 
into the mystery of the Trinity ; and many judge 
they worship two Gods, by uniting the Father and 
Son together ; and this, I tell thee, is through ig- 
norance, for want of discerning the words in the 
creation — " Let US," in the beginning, which was 
first, and must be last, and besides it, there is 
no God. Here I have shewed thee plainly in what 
manner the us was divided, perfectly like thy two 
letters, and many words the same over again ; and 
so, I tell thee, they are here : — thus saith the Lord, 
the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, the Lord of 
Hosts. Now I ask thee, who was HIS Redeemer, 
that did his will, and obeyed it and came to suffer 
for the transgression of man, to fulfil the promise? 
Will they say, this was man ? I tell thee, no ; man's 
redemption cannot come by man ; therefore it must 
come to the Gospel — " Behold the Lamb of God, 
that taketh away the sins of the world ;" for who 
shall set in order things from the beginning, to fulfil 
the promise that was made in the beginning ? But 
these things I have revealed to thee, the reason why 
I took man's nature upon me, to suffer for the trans- 
gression of man, that was cast upon his Creator, that 
in the end the Promise may be fulfilled : and it is 

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known to thee, the enmity that is kindled between 
thee and the serpent ; between thy seed and his seed; 
all his malice and fury was strongly felt by thee; and 
heard, and discerned by my handmaids that were with 
thee ; therefore I said, be not afraid ; ye are my wit- 
nesses; and my witnesses ye are, of the enmity that was 
kindled. Now come to the Gospel, the words that 
I ordered thee to pen : John xvi. 1 1 — The prince of 
this world is judged ; but mark the words that I said 
before, in ver. 7, 8 — When the Comforter cometh 
he will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, 
and of judgment; of judgment, because the prince of 
this world is judged. Now mark these words: I told 
them the Comforter must -first come, to reprove the 
whole world, before the prince of this world was 
judged. And now mark the other words that I or- 
dered thee to bring together. — This voice came not 
because of me, but for your sakes: — Now shall the 
prince of this world be cast out. Perfectly so, I tell 
thee, the powerful working of my Spirit, and the 
manner the voice w r as spoke within thee, came not 
for thy sake, but for the sake of others, that they 
may be my witnesses, that the enmity was kindled; — 
that the prince of this world should be judged and cast 
out. Now I shall come to thy pondering: in Foley's 
book, the same letter is in the 97*h page ; as they 
stand both (Sharp and Foley's) in one date, and 
thou hast been pondering in thy heart how simple 
many things appear to be published to the world; 
but know what I told t; ee in the beoinning, thy 
case was Job's, and thy friends were like Job's ; and 
how simple dues the book of Job appear to an igno* 
world, that know not the designs, nor the ue- 
of their Creator ! Let them mark the two 
first chapters, and my answer to Satan, concerning 
Job: — "Behold he is in thine hand, but save his 
re is a mystery that no man discerns, why 
bould suffer Satan thus to try and tempt Job ; 






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doth not this appear to the world as simple as my 
suffering Satan to tempt and try thee ? But the 
ends were unknown to man, why this thing was per- 
mitted ; know I have told thee, it was not for Job 
only, but for all men, to shew in what manner 
Satan upbraids mankind ; and how afflictions often 
come to the just, to confound and shame their ac- 
cuser ! But how would mankind believe Satan was 
such an accuser and tormentor, if I had never per- 
mitted his arts to appear ? and if they had never 
appeared in the Bible, then the world might say it 
appeared simple for Satan to be permitted in this 
manner to try thee. But in Job's afflictions mark 
his words—*' I know that my Redeemer liveth, and 
that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." 
Here was Job's inward assurances from me, while 
the powers of darkness were strong upon him ; but 
mark my words 10 Job, in chap. xl. 2 — " Shall he 
that contends with the Almighty instruct him ? He 
that reproveth God, let him answer it." Now it is 
known to thee, I have told thee already, it was Sa- 
tan that reproved God concerning Job ; then know 
I compared thee to Job in the beginning ; and now, 
I tell thee, like Satan's contention concerning Job, 
so were his contention and aggravation in every way 
concerning thee, therefore I said, you are my wit- 
nesses against the devil; fear not, nor be terrified, 
my friends ; I am in the Spirit, and will destroy your 
enemy. Now do these things appear more ^marvel- 
lous to men, that I should speak in the Spirit to 
thee, than to dispute with Satan concerning Job ? 
I now tell thee, all appeareth alike marvellous to 
mankind ; and yet, I tell thee, all is brought to- 
gether, that ye may call all things to your remem- 
brance, and weigh the beginning with the ending : 
for as I compared thy life with Job's, so I shall com- 
pare Job's, and Satan's accusation against him, with 
the beginning. And now mark Job's end ; he was 



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twice as rich as at the beginning; because, thouknow- 
est his riches were doubled, after I had confounded 
Satan, his accuser; and perfectly so, I tell thee, 
will be the end of man, after I have put to silence 
your accuser. But how shall I bring all things to 
your remembrance, and call forward my footsteps, 
that were hid in the great deep, to shew you, from 
the beginning, you do not know the ending, before 
my wisdom doth appear, if I had not brought 
forth types and shadows in thee, that men might 
weigh the whole together, how Satan disputed con- 
cerning Job, how he disputed with me in the Gos- 
pel, and how it is said, in the Revelation, his 
malice would be kindled against the woman, when 
he knoweth he hath but a short time, and is cast 
unto the earth ? Then know he persecutes the woman 
which brought forth the man child. Now I tell 
thee of this mystery, concerning the man child, 
}t will not he cleared up till the end ; and then wifl 
■:~:efj one see clear the perfect mystery of the maw 
child, that is brought forward to man, to rule the 
nations with a rod of iron. But this I shall leave, 
and shew men plainly, from thy visitation, the clear 
truth of the Gospel ; and let them weigh it with the 
Scriptures that I have mentioned. 

And now I shall come to thy pondering heart, in read- 
ing over the books of Moses; and thy own thoughts 
thou hast feared being in a sin; as thou hast discerned 
many things that appear more wrong in the books of 
Moses, which are put in print, than the things I 
have commanded thee to put in print; and strange 
cio the things appear to thee that 1 should order the 
children of Israel to offer up bullocks and sheep, to 
atonement for their sins. These things ap- 
pear marvellous in thy eyes ; and I now tell thee, 
marvellous in the eyes of man do all my ways appear, 
from the creation of the world to this day ; because 
u.v footsteps have been hid in the great deep, and 



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my paths past man's finding out. But know I have, 
told thee, the books of Moses stand a type of the 
end ; and the serpent he lifted up in the wilderness, 
was a type of my being lifted up; and know I 
have told thee, the type of the beasts being slain is 
a type of the end, that SATAN must be slain like- 
wise. And now discern the words at first, which 
were said to the serpent — " Cursed art thou above 
all beasts ;" then now I tell thee, from the shadow at 
the beginning, and the words that were then spoken, 
the shadow must begin with the beast to be offered 
up for the sins of man ; therefore, I tell thee, no 
man discerneth in what manner my Bible stands, 
that the types and shadows come fit st, and the sub- 
stance las/. Now mark ; these things were ordered 
by Moses, that I visited through the wilderness. 
And now come to the Gospel ; when I came to put 
away the shadows, I came to bring the substance; 
I was lifted up, like the serpent in the wilderness ; 
and I came to bear the curse for man ; then discern 
what followeth : I did not tell my disciples to make 
any more offerings of bullocks or sheep ; but know I 
told them, it was the prince of this world that should 
be judged and cut off; for the shadows were past ; 
it was the substance that was to come ; and the old 
serpent, called the devil, to be destroyed ; for as 
the first shadows came upon me, so the second shadow 
of killing the beasts and destroying them, should 
come upon HIM, which came in the form of a ser- 
pent, com pared with the beast. Now I tell thee — all 
mankind, that mock thy visitation, thy prayers and 
petitions, to claim the promise, to have the Beast 
destroyed, that sin may be removed, may marvel 
at the Books of Moses : and let men answer me, 
which they judge most consistent with the wisdom 
of a wise and just God, to see the sacrifice in every 
heart, wishing to have the Beast destroyed, that is 
the author of all your sins, that you may serve the 



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Lord without sin unto salvation, or wishing to live 
in sin, and have its author remain, but offer up 
bullocks to make an atonement for your sins ? Now 
I ask mankind, which they judge is most pleasing to a 
just God, the shadow, or the substance? And 
know, after the shadow of offering up the beasts, 
they committed sins as before ; so this sacrifice did 
not do; but when evil is destroyed, sin will be de- 
stroyed ; then the sacrifice of the heart will be esta- 
blished in righteousness and peace. Now I tell thee, 
from thy pondering thoughts, these typesand shadows 
were commanded to be be done, after the flood, to 
shew the next Beast that must be swept away; 
and my Bow was set in the clouds for man ; there- 
fore the beasts were ordered to be slain, to shew 
the type of the promise how the Beast must 
be slain in the end ; when my Blood makes a full 
atonement for the transgression of man, then must 
come the language of every heart, to have the Beast 
slain, that sin may be destroyed; that meaneth, 
the serpent that betrayed them, compared to the 
beast ; and as the shadow, the beasts were slain ; 
but when it cometh to to the substance, know it is 
jthe old serpent, called the devil, whose power must 
be cut off. Now if these types and shadows did not 
stand in the Bible, men might marvel at the end, 
when I come to reveal all mysteries, and bring all 
things to your remembrance ; but now let him that 
mocks my visitation to thee, and men's signing for 
the destruction of Satan, that they may be sealed 
mine to the day of redemption ; those that mock 
this direction, and think it too simple for a God, let 
them tell me what good the blood of bulls and goats 
could do ? or whether a man could appear more holy 
or just in my sight, or more innocent before me, 
because he had slain a bullock, a sheep, or a lamb? 
Did this change the man's heart ? In thy heart thou 
no ; and yet. I tell thee, obeying the 



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command was a blessing to them that did it in true 
obedience to my will and command : because the type 
and shadow stood of the end. Now perfectly so I 
tell thee of the end ; it is not signing your names 
that changes the hearty or overcomes the evil power, 
so that he hath not power to tempt you; and yet I tell 
thee, the perfect obedience, and true desire of the 
heart, to have evil destroyed, that I may walk with 
man, and man with me, is a more acceptable offering 
than the burnt-offerings of beasts ; so that he who 
despiseth the one, let him point out why I com- 
manded the other. Here ! have shewed thee, from 
the books of Moses, what was the shadow of slaymg 
the Beasts ; and so I tell thee of every command, 
being given to Moses, what they should all do, 
were but types and shadows of the end, when my 
delight is with the sons of men ; and my often visit- 
ing of Moses, as thou hast remarked in reading his 
books through, are types and shadows of the end, 
when I come to claim the earth rny own, and walk 
up and down in it ; that meaneth, constantly to 
visit men by the Power of Mr Spirit, when every 
heart is renewed by me, and every evil is taken out 
of the way. Therefore I tell thee, the Books of 
Moses are types of the end. 

BALAAM AND THE HEATHEN NATIONS. 

Now come to the prophet Balaam ; Numbers xxii. 
He was not a prophet of the children of Israel ; 
but he was a prophet of Balak's wiiom Balak 
sent unto ; but thou knowest his heart went 
after Balak, that he might be promoted by him, 
to honour. — Now I know thy pondering thoughts; 
how could Balaam be a prophet of the Lord, 
and not be of the seed of the Jews, when I 
said " You only have I known of all the fa- 
milies of the earth P" Here is a mystery thou dost 
not understand, concerning Balaam ; but this mys- 

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tery I shall explain to thee. Dost thou think all the 
families of Israel were in Egypt ? — that none of their 
offspring was any where but there ? I tell thee they 
were scattered in different parts. — Dost thou think 
of the Jews there are none of their offspring amongst 
the Gentiles, that believe the Gospel ? I tell thee, 
Yes ; for when they are so scattered and divided, 
men know not from what stock they spring ; therefore 
leave off thy pondering thoughts concerning Balaam: 
and now discern his heart, how he wished to be pro- 
moted to honour by Balak ; and yet know his 
answer — u If Balak would give me his house full of 
silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the 
Lord my God, to do less or more." Numbers xxii. 
18. Here, I tell thee, he was truly convinced, it 
was out of his power to do according to the wishes 
of Balak's heart ; and yet it was in his heart to wish 
to please Balak ; therefore, I ordered him to go up 
with the people that came unto him. — Now I know 
thy pondering thoughts : after I had ordered him 
to arise and go, it is said the anger of the Lord was 
kindled, because he went. This appears contra- 
dictory to thee ; perfectly so, I tell thee, do many 
things appear contrary to the wisdom of man, that 
are written in the Scriptures of Truth. Now I tell 
thee, why my anger was kindled when he arose to 
go; because I knew the thoughts of his heart, that 
his heart went more with Balak, that he might be 
promoted by him to honour, than his heart was with 
me. Now I tell thee, if Balaam had risen by my 
command, and his heart had been not to do the 
will of man, but of God, my anger would not have 
been kindled., because he went by my command ; but 
it was knowing the thoughts of his heart, that he 
wished to go from me, and go up to please Balak, 
that kindled my anger against Balaam ; therefore the 
angel stood in the way, and opened the mouth of 
the ass, that he might see my wondrous working, 
before he went to Balak ; and know it was out of his 



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power to go one step of his own ; for I tell thee, 
his conscience soon smote him in what he was do- 
ing ; therefore Jie said, I have sinned : and after that 
he repented ; for mark his words in the following 
chapter : " Let me die the death of the righteous. 
and let my last end be like his ! Now I tell thee, 
from Balaam, here stands a type deep of the end ; 
and I tell thee he prophesied of the end ; though it 
is known to thee, many have judged his prophecies 
only to foretel the coming of Christ ; but I tell thee 
he prophesied of the end. And now look to his 
vision— "He hath said, which heard the words of God, 
and knew the knowledge of the Most High, which 
was the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, 
but having his eyes open * ; I shall see him, but not 
now : I shall behold him, but not nigh : there shall 
come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre shall 
rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of 
Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth." Numb. 
xxiv. 16, 17. Now I tell thee to mark his para- 
bles through :— " How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob ! 
and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! — He shall pour the 
water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in 
many waters, and his King shall be higher than Agag, 
and his kingdom shall be exalted." Now I tell 
thee, these words men do not discern : let them read 
the chapters through, and what were the parables of 
Balaam. After the ass had opened her mouth to re- 
prove him, he prophesieth of the end — what star 
should appear ; what sceptre he should sway; and 
whose kingdom should be exalted ! But mark the 
end of his parables : Ci Alas ! who shall live when 
God doeth this ?" Here, I tell thee, he plainly 
shews, from every parable, what is the end of the 
children of Israel ; and what I shall arise to do ; but 
who are the children of Israel ? is thy enquiry ; does 

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his allude to the Jews ? are they the children of Israel 
who are meant ? But know, already I have told thee, 
w' o the children of Israel arc : It is they to whom 
the promises are made ; for as Balaam was a prophet, 
and not with them, yet he prophesied of the end, 
perfectly so, I tell thee, many true Prophets 
will arise, to discern the end, that are not of the 
Gospel, as Balaam did ; and yet I tell thee, it is those 
that are of the Gospel, and rely upon me for Re- 
demption, that I shall free from the powers of 
darkness, as the children of Israel were freed from 
the hand of Pharaoh ; and yet I tell thee, like Ba- 
laam, when my deliverance draweth near, to gain 
the promised land for my people, and build Jeru- 
salem afresh, prophets like Balaam must arise, and 
warn these nations ; for I tell thee, as the angel 
appeared in the way to Balaam, and opened the 
mouth of the ass, to let Balak know that the chil- 
dren of Israel would possess his land ; perfectly so, 
I tell thee, will the visions he in the end to warn 
other nations what are my decrees. Now I ask thee, 
who would receive the threatenings abroad from this 
nation? or who would hear the threatenings? Would 
Balak have sent to Moses, or to Aaron, to enquire of 
them ? In thy heart thou answerest, no; perfectly so 
I tell thee of other nations-, they will not hear the 
threatening from this nation, and Ptophets like Ba- 
laam must arise jrom abroad-, therefore, it is written, 
in the Revelation, of the leaves of the tree 
being for the healing of the nations. I tell thee, 
they must be first wounded by judgments, and warn- 
ed of destruction by prophets, thai will arise amongst 
then; ; and then with joy they will hear the news, 
that there are hopes for those that turn. So I tell 
thee, in the book of Moses that thou hast read over, 
and stumbled at, stand every type and shadow of 
the end. — But where is the man who can prove the 
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kingdom so exalted ? No ; I tell thee, men do not 
discern the Scriptures they read ; nor what is fulfilled, 
nor what is yet to come ; but all will find the truth 
of Balaam's words — " God is not a man, that he 
should lie, neither the son of man, that he should 
repent; hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or 
hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good ? I 
have received commandment to bless ; and he hath 
blessed, and I cannot reverse it." Num. xxiii. 1 9, 20; 
Now I tell thee, from Balaam's words ; I have or- 
dered thee to read through the Books of Moses, 
that thou mayest discern the truth of my words, 
that the prophecies of Balaam were not then fulfilled; 
but he prophesied of what should be hereafter, when 
I come to deliver my people from the bondage of 
sin and Satan, as I was then delivering them from 
the hand of Pharaoh — which were but types and 
shadows of the end. Now mark the words of Ba- 
laam, and what followed after, and then you will see 
that his words must stand to the end : — " He hath 
not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen 
perverseness in Israel ; the Lord his God is with 
him, and the shout of a king is amongst them." Num. 
xxiii. 21. "The people began to commit whoredom 
with the daughters of Moab ; 3 ver. — And Israel 
joined himself with Baal-peor : and the anger of the 
Lord was kindled against Israel. Num. xxv. \ . 3. 
The Lord said unto Moses — This people will rise up 
and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers 
of the land whither they go to be among them, and 
will forsake me, and my covenant." Deut. xxxi. 10. 
For I know their imagination, which they go about, 
even now, before I have brought them into the land, 
which I s ware, ver. 21. Now I have shewed thee 
from these chapters, that I foresaw there was per- 
verseness in the hearts of the children of Israel, and 
that they would turn away from all my commands, 
that I had commanded them ; therefore I tell thee, 
the words of Balaam were not fulfilled in them : nei- 



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ther do men discern what they read ; for know I told 
Moses how I knew they would depart from me, and 
bring clown my anger upon them, and how they 
would be scattered again in the end ; therefore I tell 
thee, no man discerneth that Balaam prophesied of 
the end. When the hearts of men are changed, and 
the imagination of their hearts are to have all evil de- 
stroyed ; then will the words of Balaam be fulfilled — 
that the shout of a King will be in the camp of Israel ; 
but that must be the true Israel of God, when the 
morning STARarisethin their hearts; then will I de- 
stroy all the Amorites,the Canaanites, and the Kenites. 
Now I tell thee from these nations, it alludes to all 
nations that are like them, when I come to make a 
final end, and sway the sceptre in righteousness : then 
it may be said — How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, 
and thy tabernacles, O Israel ! — when I come to afflict 
Eber, that he perish for ever. Now I tell thee the 
meaning of the words of Eber's perishing for ever, 
compared with the other nations. It is the ROOT 
OF EVIL must perish for ever ; then shall my 
doctrine drop as the rain, my speeches shall distil 
as the dew, when men publish the name of the 
Lord, and ascribe the greatness unto your God, 
when I separate the sons of Adam. Deut. xxxii. Here 
is a chapter thou dost not understand ; neither is it 
understood by the learned ; yet thou sayest in thy 
heart, the words seem plain before thee — When the 
Most High divider fa to the nations their inheritance, 
when he scparateth the sons of Adam : he set the 
bounds for the people, according to the number of 
the children of Israel ; for the Lord's portion is his 
people ; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance : and all 
this ihou judgest alludes merely to the children of 
Israel, without considering how often they were pro- 
voking mk to anger to destroy them ; and how they 
were always rebelling against me ; then what portion 
could they be to the Lord, to be the lot of his in- 
heritance ? No; I tell thee, these words stand for 



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the end, when my people will be my portion, that 
turn unto me, to live for ever in my fear and in my 
favour ; then shall I keep them as the apple of mine 
eye. For I tell thee, the world is as a howling wil- 
derness, and as a desert it is now to man ; and Satan 
is ready to catch the prey ; therefore I tell thee, the 
Scriptures, that thou hast pondered over are not dis- 
cerned nor understood by men, that all these things 
stand upon record what I shall do for my people in 
the end ; neither have men discerned what followed 
the children of Israel ; and how their rest was not 
sure ; neither did they continue in my favour to en- 
joy the things that were written of them ; neither do 
they discern. for what end these words stand — to shew 
mankind how the shadows of the first are the substance 
of the last, when I told Moses I would give them the 
lands I had promised ro their fathers ; and as the 
shadow began by the children of Israel, so, I tell thee, 
the substance will end unto all the true Israel of 
God, when I separate the sons of Adam, to preserve 
the Abels, and destroy the Cains. This is the sepa^ 
ration I shall make, when I come with ten thousands 
of saints, who are longing for my coming and for my 
commands to be written in every heart ; then will 
come the words of Moses, that he spake to the dif- 
ferent tribes of Israel ; so will it rest upon the dif- 
ferent nations, who receive the blessings like Jacob ; 
for then, I tell thee, it will be lasting. — And now mark 
the words of Moses, in the chapter that is before thee. 
Deut. xxxiii. Now I have shewed thee these chap- 
ters, and gave thee a short explanation therefrom, that 
men may discern what stands on record, from the 
beginning to the ending ; for I now tell thee, these 
chapters, though they perfectly speak of the end, 
they are not discerned by man, bur are judged as 
men judge my Gospel : because I said it is finished, 
they judge that all was finished-, and perfectly so by 
the words of Moses ; because he said it to the chil- 
dren of Israel, they judge all was fulfilled in them ; 



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that is, unto the Jews at that time, without discerning 
who were the true Israel of God. Now I tell 
thee, if men take all for the Jews, for them only to 
have the promised blessings, they cannot believe my 
Gospel ; for now I ask thee, what Scriptures will men 
apply unto those that are brought in by my Gospel, 
to believe in their redemption ? and where stand the 
Promises by the Prophets, if they allude all to the 
Jews, that all stand for them only in the end ? Then 
my Gospel must be null and void ; and there is no 
man who can make it good, because I said I come 
to fulfil the law of God and the prophets ; and again 
I told my disciples, in all my parables, that Jt was 
them that believed in me, that I died for their salva- 
tion, that I should come again to redeem ; and these 
are they that should be welcomed into the joy of 
their Lord, who were faithful at my coming, Now 
I tell thee, if men weigh the Gospel and the Prophets 
together, and ascribe all the blessings that were made 
to the Israel of God to be to the Jews only, then they 
must deny the Gospel ; for the Law and the Gospel 
cannot stand together ; because at my coming to re- 
deem the world my Promise is to none who do not 
believe in me, that I died for the salvation of man ; 
and this, I tell thee, men must believe, if they be- 
lieve the prophets ; then how can these things stand 
for the Jews, who neither kept the law of Moses, 
neither keep they my Gospel ? Then where is the 
rock they have to fly to, who neither obey the Fa- 
ther nor the Son — the Law nor the Gospel ? Then 
now I ask thee on what can they rely ? But now I 
know thy pondering heart : thousands of the Jews 
turned to the Gospel, and upon their offspring may 
the promises rest in the end ; but this, I tell thee, 
is unknown to man, who is the offspring of the 
Jews, and who is not ; therefore I tell thee, as Jacob 
was called Israel, so I tell thee are the promises to 
Jews and Gentiles, as Jacob and Israel were two names 
in one ; perfectly so stands the end, which, I tell 



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thee, comes by faith : Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob 
obtained the promise by Faith— -and there stands the 
whole Israel of God." 

What the Spirit has farther delivered will be found in 
Mr. Foley's Book, in his Answer to the World, begin- 
ning at page 71> and continued to the end of page 77. 

The whole of these Communications were taken by Ann 
Underwood, from the mouth of Joanna South- 
cott, in the presence oj Jane Townley. 

A COMMUNICATION 

ON 

JOANNA'S VISITATION, AT BRISTOL; 

in 1804. 

I have promised, in page 15, to give to the public a 
further Communication about Types and Shadows, and 
which follows here, in addition to what has already been 
given by the Spirit in the foregoing pages. 

June 9, 1805, after Joanna had been reading over her 
wondrous visitation at Bristol, in the summer of 1S04, she 
deeply pondered in her heart of the manner of her visita- 
tion ; of her being so strongly assaulted by the powers 
of darkness, at that time; and that the publication of 
them could be of no use to be put in print, as she saw no 
prophecies in them. Whilst Joanna was thus pondering, 
the Spirit told her, they were of use for a time to 
come; arid that the strange things, which had happened 
to her during that year, should be compared with the 
book of Job—- with Isaiah xx— where the Lord ordered him 
to walk naked and bare-footed three years, for a sign 
and a wonder upon Egypt, &c. — with Jeremiah xiii — 
where the Lord ordered him to take a linen girdle, and 

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put it on his loins ; and after that he was ordered to take 
the girdle and go to Euphrates, and hide it' there in a 
hole of the rock ; and after many days, he was ordered 
to go again and take it out; — and also in Ezekiel iy, are 
seen the many different ways the Lord commanded him 
to do. 

In the same year of 180*, Joanna was twice ordered 
to send the Letters by Express, instead of the usual mode 
by the post. Now all these things together appeared to 
her marvellous ; as she could see no prophecies in them ; 
and that it could be no pleasure to people to read about 
her sufferings. These were the pondering thoughts of 
Joanna, on Sunday, June 9, 1605, while she was reading 
over the Book printed by Mr. Foley, at the end of 1804, 
entitled, u What manner of Communications are these." 

THE ANSWER OF THE SPIRTT. 

Now, Joanna, I shall answer thee from the pon- 
dering of thy heart and thoughts, which I have 
worked strongly in thee ; as the hearts of all men are 
known to me, and the pondering of thy heart and 
thoughts are the pondering thoughts of many. And 
now I tell thee why I ordered thy Visitation to be so 
in print. Know what I told thee of the year at the 
beginning, that it was a type of the End ; and now I tell 
thee, there are no books that have been printed are a 
stronger prophecy of the end than those are : and I 
now tell thee, what happened to thee is a deep type 
and shadow to your nation, and to all nations. 
For as Isaiah's going barefooted was a type unto 
the people what should happen to them ; so I tell 
thee, what happened to thee is a type unto the na- 
tions the same ; and perfectly so they will find it in 
the end ; for as I placed types and shadows in thefc*, 
let this be observed and remarked by all men, this 
thia§ came to thee in the 4th year of the century, 
that I told thee before the century began, in the 4th 



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year I should begin to change my Blessings into 
Judgments ; and in that year I set the type as strongly 
in thee as I set it in Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekie'l. 
And now mark the words which I said to Jeremiah, 
after I had set the sign from the girdle, that he took 
out of the rock and saw it was marred, and was 
profitable for nothing: know my answer : After this 
manner will I marr the pride of Judah, and the great 
pride of Jerusalem. And perfectly so, I tell thee, 
hath been my Visitation to thee ; and in like manner 
it shall come upon the Nations. And mark every 
way ; it came to thee in different ways, and in a 
different manner; and so, I tell thee, in different 
ways, and in a different manner, it will come upon 
the Nations. And mark how many different ways I 
ordered the type to stand in Ezeliel, chap, iv # : the 
one by taking a tile, as though he was laying siege 
against Jerusalem and setting battering rams against 
it round about ; and as I ordered him to take an iron 
pan and set it for a wall of iron between him and the 
city, and to besiege it, for a sign to the house of 
Israel ; then I ordered him to lay on his left side, 
to lay the iniquities of the house of Israel upon it ; 
and the years of their iniquity were to be according 
to the number of days that I ordered him to lay on 
his left side — three hundred and ninety days ; and 
forty days to lay on his right side, for the iniquities 
of the house of Judah, each day for a year. Then I 
ordered the meat he should eat to be mixed together, 
which was unpleasant to the taste. Thus I com- 
manded the prophet for a sign unto the people, what 
their iniquities should bring upon them ; and per- 
fectly so, I tell thee, the three months that my 
Visitation was so strange upon thee, in the 4th year 
of the century, will be three yeaks to this nation, 

* Read the 4th and oth chapters, which were written 518 years he- 
fore Christ. 

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wherein they will see my strange Visitation, of various 
kinds. For though they do not discern the distresses 
that have happened to your people abroad-^-no more 
than they discerned what happened to thee ; and yet, 
1 tell thee, it was felt by the people of your own land, 
as my visitation was. felt by thee : and. as thou didst 
lie on the floor in agonies and sufferings, so did your 
people lie on the ground by the sword, by the plague 
that was in your Port # , and others were sunk in the 
great deep. But this hath been unnoticed by man, 
to discern the shadows that first appeared ; but I tell 
vou, it will be felt by your land when the Expresses 
come of dangers, as I ordered the Expresses to go out. 
This is a shadow you do not discern, the two expresses 
that I commanded should be sent out xh^ first year 
that I began to visit your nation with heavy afflicti- 
ons ; they do not discern it ; neither will they 
discern it, before judgments co?ne heavier upon 
them ; but by Expresses they will be warned : and I 
now tell thee, in various ways things will happen in 
your land. And now I shall begin with thy first Visi- 
tation : thou wast alarmed, fearing thou hadst done 
wrong, and every mark of despair was fixed in thee ; 
then came the power of my Spirit to thy deliver- 
ance. Now I tell thee, this is one of the things that 
will happen to your nation : when they see the 
judgments roll on, and great dangers seem to sur« 
round them, there are thousands who zvill begin like 
thee, to make enquiry if they have done wrong ; for 
know I have told thee, the persecuting Pauls, where 
the hearts be good, they will begin to grow jealous 
for thcir.-elves, when they see the dangers before 
them, and the truth is plainly shewn unto them ; 
then they will begin to cry out like thee, and enquire 
into the cause : therefore I took my Spirit from thee 
and hid my face as it were for a moment, and gave 
the enemy room to work, that I might shew thee 

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what would be in the heart of man. But know I told 
thee, those that began to grow jealous, like thee, fear- 
ing they might do wrong, I should convince them in 
the end, when I began to shew my powerful working : 
and powerful they will rind it in the end. This is 
the shadow of one of thy visitations, that many, 
like thee, will be jealous for themselves. But now 
I shall tell thee of another visitation, when thou 
wast laid on the floor, insensible of what thou wast 
doing, till thou hadst discoloured thy own flesh by 
thy own hands, beating thyself. This is a Type 
which stands deep for the LAND, that is insensible 
of their own dangers, insensible of what they are do- 
ing, and what they are bringing on themselves. And 
I tell thee, it is not to this nation only, but the type 
stands deep for other nations ; because thy prophe- 
cies stand for all nations, and the ends of the earth : 
and my visitation is upon all nations, which I tell 
thee will go on ; for I shall not stop until I have 
made an end. Therefore I tell thee, thousands, 
like thee, will be insensible of what they are doing, 
till their own hands bring on their own destruction, 
as thy own hands wounded thee. This is another 
shadow which lies deep for the nation ; and, as I 
told thee, for all nations : and know, in this thou 
wast insensible. Another shadow is of thy sickness ; 
for I now tell thee, as thou wast sick, so shall I 
sicken the nations, and make them sick with smit- 
ing them ; for I now tell thee, as thy stomach loath- 
ed the bread of man, so do men loath my word, 
and the bread that cometh down from heaven to be 
eternal life to them ; and yet, I tell thee, this is as 
much loathed by thousands, as bread was loathed by 
thee; therefore I shall make them sick even unto 
death, as thou wast sick ; but thy life was prolong- 
ed to finish the work I had for thee to do ; and so 
I tell thee of the nations ; though I shall make them 
sick with smiting therm yet I shall not cut them clean 



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off, before my work is finished, in the war you are 
now engaged ; for I now tell thee, as thou brakest the 
clomen ware, the potter's clay, so shall I break the 
nations in pieces. For I now tell thee, perfectly like 
the types I placed in my prophets, which I have 
mentioned unto thee, perfectly so all nations will 
l>noiv I placed the types last year in thee ; and there- 
fore, I tell thee, it is not seven times seven the 
number of those books that are printed, that will 
be enough for the end. Here I have shewed thee 
thy own folly, concerning the books. And now I 
shall go on with the types I placed in thee ; and 
come tothy midnight hours, and thy restlessness 
in thy bed. Here, I tell thee, the type goes deep 
for thy friends, as well as foes. When dangers sur- 
round you all, then let them mark thy words ; — "Fear 
not my friends — fear not my followers — fear not ye 
that are longing for my coming." For what I spoke 
then to my handmaids through thee, is spoken to all 
my brethren. This, 1 tell thee, is a deep type to the 
Believers, when my destroying angel goeth forth, 
and dangers seem to surround them all ; then I bid 
them to fear not, but stand still and seethe salvation 
of the Lord: and they will know what manner of com- 
munications all these are, when their hearts are sad ; 
for then their deliverance draweth near, to turn 
their sorrows into joy, and end as thine did with 
the year, which is but a shadow to the Believers, 
how their sorrows will end in a perfect harmony and 
joy. But had enemies come forward at the end of 
the year, the type could not be set for them to 
shew clearly their end, after troubles had come upon 
them as the type stood in thee; for I tell thee, every 
type stood in thee, for friends and foes; for those 
that mock their coming Lord, and those that are 
longing for my kingdom. And now I shall tell thee 
of thy temptations. It is known to thee as well as to 
me, many have disputed of the book of Job, and 






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never believed there was such a man, or such tempta- 
tions, and thought that Satan would not dispu^u with 
the Lord, or that the Lord would ever answel him. 
This, as it is known to thee as well as me, hath been 
disputed by men ; therefore I permitted, the powers 
of darkness to work every way with thee, that it 
might be made known at the end, what are his dis- 
putes, and what are my answers. And now I tell 
thee, as Satan's working was strong with thee, so wilt 
his working be strong with mankind, that he may 
foil them in the end. And this I told thee in the 
year 1 800, how strongly Satan would pursue man- 
kind, that he may seek their destruction, and not 
let them go to possess my promised rest, that I hav$ 
promised unto man. But had I never made known 
his arts to thee, by permitting him to come, his arts 
would never have been made known to mankind; 
for had it been only in the book of Job, it would 
not have been believed by man, that in all ages he 
hath pursued the same ; but I tell thee, in all ages 
many have been his arts, and' strong have been his 
disputes against mankind : therefore it is written, 
he is the great ACCUSER of the Brethren; but 
how could this be proved and known, to appear to 
mankind, if I had not permitted him to visit thee, 
to shew you all, that the end is at hand. And I 
now tell thee, deep are the parables, which Satan 
brought forward ; for if he cannot accomplish them 
in one, he will try to accomplish them in others; 
though not in the same manner, yet I tell thee, in 
the same sense will his pursuits be with mankind ; 
and every visitation that came to thee, in the year 
that is past, will be deeply discerned in the end, when 
thou art no more ; for every mystery and every work- 
ing must be made known to mankind.'* 



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I am afraid to add ar>y observations at the close of this 
book, ilest I should divert the mind from the words of 
wisdofe ; as it is my sincere wish, that every man may 
seriously consider, that he has a great duty to perform, 
like a jury in a court of justice^ which is to know the 
truth, the whole truth, and riothing but the truth : — 
« For he that is most zealous to find out the Truth is the 
most zealous to know his God:— He that hath ears to hear, 
iet him hear; he that hath a heart to understand, let him 
understand : — I have spoken, but ye have not hearkened; 
and the Lord hath sent unto you all his servants the pro- 
phets, rising early and sending them unto you ; but ye 
have not hearkened, nor inclined your ears to hear." 
Jer. xxv. 3. For as a horse that runneth a race and stop- 
peth not until he hath gained the prize, so will the Re- 
deemer of Israel go on, and will not stop, until he hath 
brought forth judgment unto victory, and accomplished 
all the promises made in the Bible, having their founda- 
tion on the promise at the creation of man; for so 
sure as the body of man came from the dust of the 
ground, so sure will he rise above the dust and become 
a living soul: — "Thy dead shalllive ; with my dead 
body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell 
in the dust : for thy dew is as the dew of herbs ; and the 
earth shall cast out the dead. — Come, my people, enter 
thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee ; 
hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the in- 
dignation be overpast. — For behold the LORD 

COMETH OUT OF HIS PLACE, TO PUNISH THE INHA- 
BITANTS OF THE EARTH FOR THEIR INIQUITY : THE 
EARTH ALSO SHALL DISCLOSE HER BLOOD, AND 
SHALL NO MORE COVER HER SLAIN. La. XXvi. 19 — 21. 

April 3. 1806. WILLIAM SHARP. 



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